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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_SATA has to be a tristate
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:24:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050709012359.GO3671@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507090134040.3743@scrub.home>

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:36:08AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig.old	2005-07-02 21:57:40.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig	2005-07-02 21:58:06.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@
> >  source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid"
> >  
> >  config SCSI_SATA
> > -	bool "Serial ATA (SATA) support"
> > +	tristate "Serial ATA (SATA) support"
> >  	depends on SCSI
> >  	help
> >  	  This driver family supports Serial ATA host controllers
> 
> Did you verify that this works?
> Overwise "depends on SCSI=y" might also be correct.

Yes, I did.

The problem is that all the SATA drivers depend on SCSI_SATA.

With SCSI=m and SCSI_SATA=y this allows the static enabling of the SATA 
drivers with unwanted effects, e.g.:
- SCSI=m, SCSI_SATA=y, SCSI_ATA_ADMA=y
  -> SCSI_ATA_ADMA is built statically but scsi/built-in.o is not linked 
     into the kernel
- SCSI=m, SCSI_SATA=y, SCSI_ATA_ADMA=y, SCSI_SATA_AHCI=m
  -> SCSI_ATA_ADMA and libata are built statically but 
     scsi/built-in.o is not linked into the kernel,
     SCSI_SATA_AHCI is built modular (unresolved symbols due to missing 
                                      libata)

Making SCSI_SATA a tristate solves all these problems.

"depends on SCSI=y" would also solve these problems, but it would leave 
people with modular SCSI without SATA support...

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-09  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-08 21:48 [2.6 patch] SCSI_SATA has to be a tristate Adrian Bunk
2005-07-08 23:36 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-09  0:05   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-07-09  1:24   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-15 21:35 Adrian Bunk
2005-07-02 16:50 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-07-02 21:43 ` [2.6 patch] SCSI_SATA has to be a tristate Adrian Bunk
2005-07-03 14:01   ` Zoltan Boszormenyi

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