Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932446AbWIAQWs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:22:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932444AbWIAQWs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:22:48 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.233.138]:42189 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932391AbWIAQWr (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:22:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:19:20 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Stefan Richter 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] Message-ID: <20060901161920.GB32440@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <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> <44F85267.1000607@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <44F85267.1000607@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1052 Lines: 29 On Fri, 1 September 2006 17:31:51 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > > 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. True. Marginally better than horrible then. :) > Could be a fun project [...] Absolutely. Assuming that select gets removed in the process, and concentrating on oldconfig, would it be enough to have something like this in the .config? # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE has unmet dependencies: CONFIG_SCSI, CONFIG_BLOCK Now people looking for usb mass storage can find the option without grepping through Kconfig files, but also every single driver for every single disabled subsystem shows up. Might be a bit too much. J?rn -- Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent. -- Sun Tzu - 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/