From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shaya Potter 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 Message-ID: <1156993496.4381.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060829115138.GA32714@infradead.org> <20060825142753.GK10659@infradead.org> <20060824213252.21323.18226.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060824213334.21323.76323.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <10117.1156522985@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <15945.1156854198@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060829122501.GA7814@infradead.org> <20060829195845.GA13357@kroah.com> <17652.44254.620358.974993@stoffel.org> <20060831030134.GA4919@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Stoffel , Greg KH , Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Return-path: Received: from cs.columbia.edu ([128.59.16.20]:3581 "EHLO cs.columbia.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932076AbWHaDGC (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:06:02 -0400 To: Matthew Wilcox In-Reply-To: <20060831030134.GA4919@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.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.