Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758025AbXENSmi (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:42:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755126AbXENSm3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:42:29 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:49894 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753152AbXENSm2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:42:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 19:46:14 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: James Bottomley , Simon Arlott , "Robert P. J. Day" , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module? Message-ID: <20070514194614.4f00655d@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: 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> <1179078537.3723.53.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-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: 1009 Lines: 27 On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:29:12 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 13 2007 12:48, James Bottomley wrote: > > > >> 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 in the long run, that SCSI parts which are actually used by ATA > should be factored out so that SCSI really is SCSI again, and not > "Common layer for SCSI, SATA and PATA" or so. The common layer for the queueing is one thing, but the ATAPI devices (CD-ROM etc) are SCSI commands over an ATA bus. A subset of SCSI commands badly over an ATA bus but SCSI commands nevertheless - so they have the same basic dependancies as USB storage does. 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/