Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750722AbWHaDBh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:01:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751416AbWHaDBh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:01:37 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:41399 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750722AbWHaDBg (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:01:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:01:34 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: John Stoffel Cc: Greg KH , Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] Message-ID: <20060831030134.GA4919@parisc-linux.org> References: <20060829115138.GA32714@infradead.org> <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> <20060829195845.GA13357@kroah.com> <17652.44254.620358.974993@stoffel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17652.44254.620358.974993@stoffel.org> 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: 740 Lines: 14 On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:08:46PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Maybe the better solution is to remove SCSI as an option, and to just > offer SCSI drivers and USB-STORAGE and other SCSI core using drivers > instead. Then the SCSI core gets pulled in automatically. It's not > like people care about the SCSI core, just the drivers which depend on > it. People don't want to have to say "no" to umpteen scsi drivers. They just want to say "no" to SCSI, because they know they don't have scsi. - 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/