Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751378AbWHaI5b (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:57:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751051AbWHaI5b (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:57:31 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:25758 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbWHaI5a (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:57:30 -0400 Message-ID: <44F6A385.9090508@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:53:25 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060721 SeaMonkey/1.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shaya Potter CC: Matthew Wilcox , John Stoffel , 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] 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> <20060831030134.GA4919@parisc-linux.org> <1156993496.4381.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1156993496.4381.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1247 Lines: 30 Shaya Potter wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 21:01 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> 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 [...] >> 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. > > so then that's shows a problem with the kconfig syntax. > > CONFIG_SCSI should perhaps be hidden, and what's visible to the user is > CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVER [...] But drivers like usb-storage and sbp2 are SCSI drivers too. What you mean is CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVERS_WHICH_APPEAR_IN_THE_SCSI_MENU. It all just revolves around the fact that the menu layout does not match the dependency graph. We currently sacrifice clarity and integrity of the Kconfigs in order to solve presentational issues. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =--- ===== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/