Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758164AbXEMRtY (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 13:49:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754239AbXEMRtQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 13:49:16 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:34484 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753827AbXEMRtP (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 13:49:15 -0400 Subject: Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module? From: James Bottomley To: Simon Arlott Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46474E1A.6080904@simon.arlott.org.uk> References: <20070513160608.GA29024@redhat.com> <1179072655.3723.42.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1179073670.3723.48.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <46474E1A.6080904@simon.arlott.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 12:48:56 -0500 Message-Id: <1179078537.3723.53.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1034 Lines: 28 On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 18:42 +0100, Simon Arlott wrote: > > 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. > > This should be implemented like "Library routines" and only added if such > a SCSI driver module is actually selected. Why can't it at least be a > visible option in the menu? (Although even then it looks like it's > impossible to disable). There's out of tree modules to consider. > Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it? That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list. libata-pata does require SCSI ... and I suspect the libata developers didn't want to trip users by them having to select SCSI before they could select libata. James - 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/