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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:49:58 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] USB Kconfig: Reorganize USB Kconfig Menu
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:21:51PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
>> Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> would you please explain like I asked you:
>>>   - what is wrong with the current solution which tells the user to
>>>     first enable SCSI to get the USB_STORAGE option,
>>>   - whether there are frequent end-user requests which demonstrate
>>>     that many people currently don't realize how to enable USB_STORAGE.
...
>> I thought we discussed this before.  We do it here, for the same reasons 
>> libata does it.  In any case, the patch is optional.

Al,
I admit I haven't read everything of the discussion.  So, sorry if I got
on your nerves.  (However, http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/5/151 and
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/5/209 didn't yield responses which addressed
the mentioned points.  Also, "libata's reasons for doing so apply to
usb-storage as well" is not a fact-based answer to these points either.
Anyway, sorry if I missed an according response elsewhere.)

> Yes, I do not want to do this, as we went round and round on it in the
> past many times over the years.  It should be left as-is.

I'm relieved.  :-)
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Stefan Richter
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