Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750967AbWJ0XCE (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:02:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750971AbWJ0XCE (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:02:04 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:60862 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967AbWJ0XCA (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:02:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6.19 patch] let PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN From: Alan Cox To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Greg KH , Stephen Hemminger , Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Machek , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz In-Reply-To: <20061027222326.GC27968@stusta.de> References: <20061026224541.GQ27968@stusta.de> <20061027010252.GV27968@stusta.de> <20061027012058.GH5591@parisc-linux.org> <20061026182838.ac2c7e20.akpm@osdl.org> <20061026191131.003f141d@localhost.localdomain> <20061027170748.GA9020@kroah.com> <20061027222326.GC27968@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:03:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1161990182.16839.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 882 Lines: 22 Ar Sad, 2006-10-28 am 00:23 +0200, ysgrifennodd Adrian Bunk: > The problem is that if only 1 out of 100 people who are compiling a > kernel accidentally enable this option, linux-kernel will be swamped > with bug reports... > > If it shouldn't be enabled by users, the only correct language is a > dependency on BROKEN. If Greg insists of NAKking this then will you please make IDE and ATA at least dependant on !MULTITHREADED_PROBE, as neither are safe with it selected. No I've no idea how you will boot a box with Greg's stuff after that either, but I'm just pointing out the correct dependancies as the code stands today. Alan - 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/