Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964829AbWIAAPq (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:15:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964827AbWIAAPq (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:15:46 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27866 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964826AbWIAAPp (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:15:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] From: David Woodhouse To: Roman Zippel Cc: Adrian Bunk , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 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> <20060830214356.GO18276@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:15:17 -0700 Message-Id: <1157069717.2347.13.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 23 On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 00:41 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > 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: > > It was already silly three years ago. I agree. > > When doing anything kconfig related, you must always remember that the > > vast majority of kconfig users are not kernel hackers. > > What does that mean, that only kernel hackers can read? No, it means that we're pandering to Aunt Tillie. -- dwmw2 - 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/