From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski@broadnet-mediascape.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 10:56:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406DA946.7040202@backtobasicsmgmt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040402181630.B12306@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
> (b) have kconfig tell you why you can't turn off the option.
>
> Silently preventing options being turned off with no obvious reason
> is a pretty major misfeature.
It's even worse than that; with USB_STORAGE enabled, CONFIG_SCSI doesn't
even show an option selection box, so it's not even obvious that it _is_
an option, rather than a comment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-02 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-02 13:09 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible Olaf Zaplinski
2004-04-02 13:18 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-04-02 13:21 ` Sean Neakums
2004-04-02 13:42 ` Russell King
2004-04-02 14:03 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-02 16:59 ` Greg KH
2004-04-02 17:16 ` Russell King
2004-04-02 17:56 ` Kevin P. Fleming [this message]
2004-04-02 18:14 ` Greg KH
2004-04-05 22:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-06 8:42 ` Russell King
2004-04-06 10:46 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-06 11:03 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-02 19:29 ` Ricky Beam
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