Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932122AbWH3Vn7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:43:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932138AbWH3Vn7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:43:59 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58884 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932137AbWH3Vn6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:43:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:43:56 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Stefan Richter Cc: Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] Message-ID: <20060830214356.GO18276@stusta.de> References: <20060825142753.GK10659@infradead.org> <20060824213252.21323.18226.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060824213334.21323.76323.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <10117.1156522985@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <15945.1156854198@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060829122501.GA7814@infradead.org> <44F44639.90103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <44F44B8D.4010700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <44F5DA00.8050909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44F5DA00.8050909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1184 Lines: 36 On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:33:36PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Roman Zippel wrote: > >On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > >>An easy but crude fix would be to add an according hint at the help text > >>of > >>the immediately superordinate config option. > [...] > >You can also add a simple comment which is only visible if !SCSI. > > Thanks, I will do so. Please don't do this. USB_STORAGE switched from a depending on SCSI to select'ing SCSI three years ago, and ATA in 2.6.19 will also select SCSI for a good reason: When doing anything kconfig related, you must always remember that the vast majority of kconfig users are not kernel hackers. > Stefan Richter cu Adrian -- "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/