Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934619AbXEMQi0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 12:38:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758130AbXEMQiR (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 12:38:17 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:48979 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754709AbXEMQiQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 12:38:16 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.196 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 12:37:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: James Bottomley cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module? In-Reply-To: <1179073670.3723.48.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Message-ID: References: <20070513160608.GA29024@redhat.com> <1179072655.3723.42.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1179073670.3723.48.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1454 Lines: 37 On Sun, 13 May 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 12:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > since this thread looks like it's going to get away from me in a > > hurry :-), my only point in asking was to point out that that lone > > module was the only thing preventing the build from being module-free. > > > > i'm not saying that that's *necessarily* a good thing, but it just > > strikes me as odd that, out of all of the possible modules that might > > be selected in a default config for x86, this was the *only* one that > > was picked. > > > > i just think it's a bit weird, that's all. > > It's designed on the predicate that people who want to be module free > will actually set CONFIG_MODULE=n. > > If you set CONFIG_MODULE=y and build SCSI we assume you could have a > SCSI driver module at some point, which would necessitate the wait scan > module. ok, fair enough. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - 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/