From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:15:17 -0700 Message-ID: <1157069717.2347.13.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <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> <44F44639.90103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <44F44B8D.4010700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <44F5DA00.8050909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20060830214356.GO18276@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27866 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964826AbWIAAPp (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:15:45 -0400 To: Roman Zippel In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 00:41 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > USB_STORAGE switched from a depending on SCSI to select'ing SCSI three > > years ago, and ATA in 2.6.19 will also select SCSI for a good reason: > > It was already silly three years ago. I agree. > > When doing anything kconfig related, you must always remember that the > > vast majority of kconfig users are not kernel hackers. > > What does that mean, that only kernel hackers can read? No, it means that we're pandering to Aunt Tillie. -- dwmw2