Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754155AbXIONVP (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:21:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751397AbXIONU6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:20:58 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:39450 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750839AbXIONU5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:20:57 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46EBDC06.3030202@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:20:06 +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: Adrian Bunk CC: Sam Ravnborg , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two References: <46EAA08F.30703@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070914151522.GL3563@stusta.de> <46EAAAC1.3050409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070914190033.GA4003@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070914190609.GN3563@stusta.de> <20070915114055.GP3563@stusta.de> <46EBCEF1.4030702@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070915125055.GQ3563@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070915125055.GQ3563@stusta.de> 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: 932 Lines: 23 Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these >>> drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support >>> for disk, CD,... ... > If users who don't need it now enable CONFIG_SCSI (and drivers/ide/ > usage is not that uncommon) that's a regression in the user interface. Aha, first all interconnects/transports are configured. If none of them 'select'ed SCSI, the menu for sd, sr, st stays invisible. Otherwise it is exposed. It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. -- 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/