Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I also feel that a lot of people are "advanced" in one area, but not 
> necessarily in another. The Netfilter example I gave was one such personal 
> gripe of mine. I just feel like I shouldn't need to care! Yeah, I have the 
> knowledge, but I *still* want to be baby-fed with just a simple "anybody 
> can understand it".

It's a good example.  I had a bear of a time with the netfilter kernel 
config on my firewall (w/ IPv6 goodness) box, when the generic netfilter 
stuff landed.  For the first time in a long time, that firewall booted 
into a configuration that wouldn't forward+masq packets properly.


> The same is true of the whole SATA/USB/SCSI thing. I know damn well that 
> the kernel uses the SCSI layer for USB and SATA, yet I feel that the ATA 
> layer does it right, and I just find the USB storage situation to be 
> *offensively* bad in this regard. Why the HELL does it have those big 
> comments and warnings, when it could just damn well enable SCSI support 
> itself?

I think maybe ATA is just lucky.  I allowed myself to get bullied into 
avoiding 'select', even though I feel the same way as you.

ATA should select scsi-disk but doesn't, for example.

And at some point it becomes a matter of taste:  should ATA select 
BLOCK, or depend on BLOCK?  There are IMO good arguments either way.

	Jeff