Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755571AbXIHTre (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:47:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754688AbXIHTrX (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:47:23 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:41427 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754651AbXIHTrW (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:47:22 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46E2FBED.2050705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:45:49 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070807 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig References: <20070907124800.GP16806@vanheusden.com> <20070907083522.3191a4ba.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070907155903.GR16806@vanheusden.com> <46E17A81.7020304@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070907230529.GX16806@vanheusden.com> <46E249CB.5070505@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46E2CE73.3000207@oracle.com> <46E2D17E.9050805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070908094852.3a6fd3f0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070908094852.3a6fd3f0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 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: 1009 Lines: 25 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:44:46 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: >> Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> 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. ... >> 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. Not completely though. Whenever a 'select' is inserted into the dependency graph, the whole thing becomes more fragile WRT future changes. -- 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/