Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964851AbXBEWIc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:08:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964852AbXBEWIc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:08:32 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:57024 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964851AbXBEWIb (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:08:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:21:23 +0000 From: Alan To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Woodhouse , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error Message-ID: <20070205222123.16a51fe6@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: <20070205084523.GA21858@elte.hu> <1170682488.29759.795.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205155627.GA8354@elte.hu> <1170692539.29759.856.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205162635.GA755@elte.hu> <20070205163152.GA2464@elte.hu> <1170710272.29759.894.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1170711587.29759.909.camel@pmac.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-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: 1167 Lines: 37 > > Really? Including the 'Scanner driver' card which arrived with my > > scanner? > > Can you read? Can you UNDERSTAND? > > This is exactly my point. > > If it's not obviously a SCSI card, then it shouldn't be "depends on SCSI". > It should be on its own and "select SCSI". It works both ways. If I don't need to know that I must select SCSI then it turns on easily. If I want to turn SCSI off then it causes mayhem. Two sides of the same coin. What is missing from the current config tools is that when you try and turn SCSI off you can't. If there is a "really turn it off" button, then you get told Disabling SCSI will disable USB scanner Foo Bar Disable Y/N it fixes Dave's problem. There are great examples of this - trying to kill off the I2C bus in a small build is one of the most painful. Yes users shouldn't need to know to turn it on, but it does need a way to turn it back off sanely. 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/