Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751651AbWIAPf6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:35:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751647AbWIAPf6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:35:58 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:32179 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751639AbWIAPf5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:35:57 -0400 Message-ID: <44F85267.1000607@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:31:51 +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: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= CC: David Woodhouse , "Randy.Dunlap" , Roman Zippel , Adrian Bunk , 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] References: <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> <20060831174852.18efec7e.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1157074048.2347.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20060901134425.GA32440@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> In-Reply-To: <20060901134425.GA32440@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 30 J?rn Engel wrote: ... > The actual problem existed before select just as it does afterwards. > People have to search extensively though Kconfig files to come up with > a useful .config. Before people had to magically know that > USB_STORAGE requires SCSI. "Magically" because USB_STORAGE didn't > show up in either make menuconfig, make xconfig or .config. Now > people have to magically know that SCSI=n requires USB_STORAGE=n. Yes and no. In the latter case, they have to magically know that at least menuconfig and xconfig can be tricked to list depending options. > What this shows is that select was a bad idea, as it merely shifted > the problem around instead of fixing it. It appears as if Stefan is > looking in the right direction for a decent fix and I'd like to see > patches from him. ... Could be a fun project right after Stefan R got rid of the kernel freezes (months old) and data corruptions (years old) assigned to him at bugzilla.kernel.org... -- 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/