Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754420AbXIOOMs (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:12:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751525AbXIOOMk (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:12:40 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:40680 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751402AbXIOOMj (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:12:39 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46EBE821.2080300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:11:45 +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: <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> <46EBDC06.3030202@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070915135314.GS3563@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070915135314.GS3563@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: 1231 Lines: 32 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and >> whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. > > If you want to do it in a really perfect way, help texts aren't the > solution. You'll have to make the options like CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR no > longer be user visible and select'ed through dummy options like e.g.: ... > tristate "USB Mass Storage hard disk support" > depends on USB_STORAGE > select BLK_DEV_SD ... > tristate "USB Mass Storage CD/DVD support" > depends on USB_STORAGE > select BLK_DEV_SR ... Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers. Also, one more question on whether CONFIG_SCSI ought to be 'select'ed: Where do scsi-core options like CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS go? -- 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/