Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:48:52 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:44:46 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote:

> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Stefan Richter wrote:
> >> I am not a friend of 'select', but maybe the following actually helps.
> ...
> > The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD,
> > but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e.,
> > select does not follow the dependency chain.  So usually the
> > kernel will not build unless SCSI is enabled by the user.
> ...
> >> config ATA_SD
> >>     tristate "SATA/PATA HDD support (via SCSI disk support)"
> >>     depends on ATA
> >>     select BLK_DEV_SD
> >>     help
> >>       'SCSI disk support' is required to access SATA HDDs.  It is
> ...
> 
> I checked the dependencies.  ATA depends on SCSI (actually, selects
> SCSI), so all is well.  Otherwise I would have added more dependencies
> to ATA_SD.

Ah, that's good, then.  Thanks.

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~Randy
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