Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make SCSI HBA configurable

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> On 25.11.2010, at 11:59, Paul Brook wrote:
> >> This patch introduces configuration variables
> >> CONFIG_SCSI_LSI
> >> CONFIG_SCSI_MEGASAS
> >> and renames the existing CONFIG_ESP to CONFIG_SCSI_ESP.
> >> With this the available SCSI HBAs can be configured for each
> >> target configuration instead of compiling it in for everyone.
> > 
> > No. These are both PCI devices, I see no particularly good reason to make
> > them optional. At minimum they should be enabled by default on all
> > configs.
> > 
> > The ESP controller is different because it is't a general purpose device,
> > and only makes sense on certain systems.
> 
> RH needs to compile out as much as they can from the code base, because
> they state that they support everything that's compiled in. So making as
> much as possible optional is good. And I don't see why we should limit
> ourselves here.

My second point (should be enabled by default) still applies.  Your patch 
removes the lsi controller from the default arm-softmmu config, which is 
definitely wrong.

Paul