Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:57:01 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
       Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH update 2] SCSI: explain the hidden scsi_wait_scan
 Kconfig variable
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:03:23 +0200 (CEST)
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> People keep sending patches to expose CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN as a tunable
> item.  These patches aren't accepted upstream, so let's stop the ongoing
> irritation of people due to the unconditionally installed module and its
> Kconfig symbol.

How about the other possibility. People keepmaking it tunable because it
makes sense for it to be tunable. Far better IMHO to make it tunable "if
EMBEDDED"

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