From: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2]
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:04:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156993496.4381.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060831030134.GA4919@parisc-linux.org>
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 21:01 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:08:46PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> > Maybe the better solution is to remove SCSI as an option, and to just
> > offer SCSI drivers and USB-STORAGE and other SCSI core using drivers
> > instead. Then the SCSI core gets pulled in automatically. It's not
> > like people care about the SCSI core, just the drivers which depend on
> > it.
>
> People don't want to have to say "no" to umpteen scsi drivers. They
> just want to say "no" to SCSI, because they know they don't have scsi.
so then that's shows a problem with the kconfig syntax.
CONFIG_SCSI should perhaps be hidden, and what's visible to the user is
CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVER
USB-STORAGE would automatically pull in CONFIG_SCSI as would
CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVER.
or perhaps I'm just talking out of my ass.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-31 3:06 UTC|newest]
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2006-08-24 21:32 ` [PATCH 01/17] BLOCK: Move functions out of buffer code [try #2] David Howells
2006-08-24 21:32 ` [PATCH 02/17] BLOCK: Remove duplicate declaration of exit_io_context() " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-24 21:32 ` [PATCH 03/17] BLOCK: Stop fallback_migrate_page() from using page_has_buffers() " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-25 16:11 ` David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 04/17] BLOCK: Separate the bounce buffering code from the highmem code " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 05/17] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-25 16:12 ` David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 06/17] BLOCK: Move bdev_cache_init() declaration to headerfile " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 07/17] BLOCK: Remove dependence on existence of blockdev_superblock " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 08/17] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 09/17] BLOCK: Move __invalidate_device() to block_dev.c " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 10/17] BLOCK: Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff to the loop driver " David Howells
2006-08-25 9:27 ` David Howells
2006-08-25 11:01 ` David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 11/17] BLOCK: Move common FS-specific ioctls to linux/fs.h " David Howells
2006-08-25 8:38 ` David Howells
2006-08-25 8:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 12/17] BLOCK: Move the ReiserFS device ioctl compat stuff to the ReiserFS driver " David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 13/17] BLOCK: Move the Ext2 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext2 " David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 14/17] BLOCK: Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext3 " David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 15/17] BLOCK: Stop CIFS from using EXT2 ioctl numbers directly " David Howells
2006-08-24 21:41 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-25 8:12 ` David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 16/17] BLOCK: Move the msdos device ioctl compat stuff to the msdos driver " David Howells
2006-08-24 21:33 ` [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer " David Howells
2006-08-25 14:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-25 14:52 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-25 16:23 ` David Howells
2006-08-29 11:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-29 12:21 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-29 12:23 ` David Howells
2006-08-29 12:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-29 13:50 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-29 14:13 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-30 1:12 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-30 18:33 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-30 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-30 22:41 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-30 23:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-30 23:58 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-31 8:01 ` Stefan Richter
2006-09-01 0:15 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-01 0:48 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-09-01 1:27 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-01 1:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-01 13:44 ` Jörn Engel
2006-09-01 15:31 ` Stefan Richter
2006-09-01 16:19 ` Jörn Engel
2006-09-01 16:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-01 17:51 ` Stefan Richter
2006-09-01 18:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-30 22:50 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-30 23:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-30 1:11 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-30 11:29 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-29 19:58 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 21:08 ` John Stoffel
2006-08-31 3:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-08-31 3:04 ` Shaya Potter [this message]
2006-08-31 8:53 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-31 12:32 ` Shaya Potter
2006-08-31 13:16 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-31 13:27 ` Shaya Potter
2006-08-31 10:13 ` David Howells
2006-08-25 18:46 ` David Howells
2006-08-25 14:08 ` [PATCH 01/17] BLOCK: Move functions out of buffer code " Christoph Hellwig
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2006-08-30 13:23 ` [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer " Bodo Eggert
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