Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757906AbYJWRje (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:39:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753111AbYJWRjW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:39:22 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:51989 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753101AbYJWRjV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:39:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:39:18 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Stefan Richter Cc: James Bottomley , Fabio Comolli , Linux Kernel Mailing List , sam@ravnborg.org, linux-scsi Subject: Re: Possible bug in SCSI Kconfig Message-ID: <20081023173917.GP26094@parisc-linux.org> References: <1224702340.6851.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1224704659.6851.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4900B4B9.4050103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4900B4B9.4050103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 21 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:30:33PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > - scsi_wait_scan is a special method to wait for devices during boot > which only works with some hardware types. More general methods are > available and have been in use far longer than scsi_wait_scan > exists. Nobody fundamentally needs scsi_wait_scan, it is only a > convenient tool for some users who choose to use it. > Special features are traditionally per default off in Kconfig and > are supposed to be actively enabled. What 'general methods' would those be? -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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/