Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261360AbVCIBPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:15:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261589AbVCIBPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:15:30 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:23821 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261360AbVCIBPR (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:15:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:15:16 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" Cc: "'Arjan van de Ven'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" , "'James Bottomley'" , "'Matt_Domsch@Dell.com'" , Andrew Morton , "'Christoph Hellwig'" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH 2.6.11 1/3] megaraid_sas: Announcing new mod ule for LSI Logic's SAS based MegaRAID controllers Message-ID: <20050309011516.GE3146@stusta.de> References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E570230CC17@exa-atlanta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E570230CC17@exa-atlanta> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1416 Lines: 45 On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:05:11PM -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: > > > >> source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid" > >> +source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid_sas" > >> > > > >why a fully separate file and not add your ONE config option to > >Kconfig.megaraid instead ?? > > > > Arjan, I didn't want to needlessly couple megaraid and megaraid_sas. > Since they are in the same directory, I couldn't avoid having single > Makefile. I thought at least these two should be separate to be consistent > with their independent nature. > > If this is not a good enough reason, I will merge these two files. Please merge them. Whether they are in the same Kconfig file or not does not in any way imply any relation between them. E.g. drivers/scsi/Kconfig contains many drivers that are not in any way coupled to each other. > Thanks, > Sreenivas cu Adrian BTW: Why does the text say "(New Driver)"? -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/