Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758058AbXIGO7M (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:59:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755132AbXIGO65 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:58:57 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.21]:1305 "EHLO smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754814AbXIGO64 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:58:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:58:45 +0200 From: Folkert van Heusden To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Message-ID: <20070907145845.GQ16806@vanheusden.com> References: <20070907124800.GP16806@vanheusden.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: www.unixexpert.nl X-Chameleon-Return-To: folkert@vanheusden.com X-Xfmail-Return-To: folkert@vanheusden.com X-Phonenumber: +31-6-41278122 X-URL: http://www.vanheusden.com/ X-PGP-KeyID: 1F28D8AE X-GPG-fingerprint: AC89 09CE 41F2 00B4 FCF2 B174 3019 0E8C 1F28 D8AE X-Key: http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1F28D8AE Reply-By: Fri Sep 7 11:31:04 CEST 2007 X-Message-Flag: MultiTail - tail on steroids User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 25 > >Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > >give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > >while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? > > Having no sd support is perfectly valid. Imagine a diskless boot > with only sr support. Ok, but that's not the most common situaties. What I'm suggesting is a warning or a please note popup. Not neccessarily an error or refusing to continue thing. Folkert van Heusden -- www.vanheusden.com/multitail - win een vlaai van multivlaai! zorg ervoor dat multitail opgenomen wordt in Fedora Core, AIX, Solaris of HP/UX en win een vlaai naar keuze ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com - 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/