Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760261AbXEPOn3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 10:43:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754586AbXEPOnU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 10:43:20 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:60648 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753981AbXEPOnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 10:43:19 -0400 Message-ID: <464B1886.1060502@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:43:18 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org CC: Simon Arlott , James Bottomley , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , kernel-packagers@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Let users disable SCSI_WAIT_SCAN to be built References: <1179073116.3723.45.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1179153096.3703.23.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <17841.simon.1179228389@5ec7c279.invalid> <20070515120228.GI10562@parisc-linux.org> <4649E03A.1090004@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070515172905.GJ10562@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1542 Lines: 49 I wrote: > --- linux-2.6.22-rc1.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > +++ linux-2.6.22-rc1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > @@ -241,11 +241,19 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC > You can override this choice by specifying "scsi_mod.scan=sync" > or async on the kernel's command line. > > -config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN > +config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN_NO_Y > tristate > default m > - depends on SCSI > - depends on MODULES SCSI_WAIT_SCAN_NO_Y is unnecessary, as Randy Dunlap pointed out in "Re: How to force Kconfig tristate into range n..m?". http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/320 > + > +config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN > + tristate "Pseudo driver which waits for SCSI scanning to finish" > + depends on MODULES && SCSI && SCSI_WAIT_SCAN_NO_Y depends on SCSI && m > + help > + When loaded, this module will do nothing else than wait for > + SCSI low-level drivers to finish asynchronous scanning. > + The module will be called scsi_wait_scan. There should be explained that it is the command "modprobe scsi_wait_scan" which is doing the waiting, and that this is useful or required in initrds. > + Most people can say n here. This sentence should probably be omitted, as it may be wrong in the future and unsafe already now. I will resend an updated patch. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= =---- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/