Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964840AbWIAAp2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:45:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932501AbWIAAp2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:45:28 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:34025 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932281AbWIAAp1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:45:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:48:52 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: David Woodhouse Cc: Roman Zippel , Adrian Bunk , Stefan Richter , 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: <20060831174852.18efec7e.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <1157069717.2347.13.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> 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> <1157069717.2347.13.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 959 Lines: 27 On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:15:17 -0700 David Woodhouse wrote: > 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. But David, you edit .config anyway, so who is "make *config" for? Not that I want enable Tillie very much.. --- ~Randy - 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/