Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759539AbXIIVWS (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2007 17:22:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754689AbXIIVWD (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2007 17:22:03 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:47041 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753851AbXIIVWB (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2007 17:22:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 23:22:00 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andi Kleen , James Bottomley , Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Message-ID: <20070909212159.GF25798@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20070907124800.GP16806@vanheusden.com> <1189371621.3526.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070909210329.GE25798@one.firstfloor.org> <46E46190.6080607@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46E46190.6080607@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 20 > The current setup expresses the dependencies as they exist -- OPTIONAL > extras, and that is a problem once a year or so, when someone builds Disk support over SCSI/SATA is hardly an "optional extra". It's more the 99+% case. > their own kernel but must learn this fact anew. When it costs 10000 people half an hour to learn and correct this it wasted 5000 hours of previous livetime. Besides there is no good reason to have ever learned this imho. -Andi - 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/