Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932280AbWHaN1b (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:27:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932272AbWHaN1b (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:27:31 -0400 Received: from cs.columbia.edu ([128.59.16.20]:19133 "EHLO cs.columbia.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932280AbWHaN13 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:27:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] From: Shaya Potter To: Stefan Richter 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 In-Reply-To: <44F6E12B.1090700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 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> <44F6A385.9090508@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1157027520.4381.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44F6E12B.1090700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:27:08 -0400 Message-Id: <1157030829.4381.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.7.92 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, X-Seen-By filter2.cs.columbia.edu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 25 On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:16 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Shaya Potter wrote: > > when I said "driver" I meant more along the line of SCSI hardware > > instead of things that use the "Linux" scsi subsystem. > [...] > > So you have a "virtual" SCSI_SUBSYSTEM which usb-storage, sbp2, sata all > > pull in by selecting it. > > > > you have SCSI_HARDWARE that adaptec, buslogic, lsilogic...... depend on. > > SCSI_HARDWARE would also select "SCSI_SUBSYSTEM". > > One nit: SBP-2 is SCSI. ok, but you should get the point. basically anything "selectable" perhaps should be a purely "virtual" (as in not shown in XYZconfig) option. how one wants to name the options doesn't really bother me. - 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/