From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_SATA has to be a tristate
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:24:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050709012359.GO3671@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507090134040.3743@scrub.home>
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:36:08AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig.old 2005-07-02 21:57:40.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2005-07-02 21:58:06.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@
> > source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid"
> >
> > config SCSI_SATA
> > - bool "Serial ATA (SATA) support"
> > + tristate "Serial ATA (SATA) support"
> > depends on SCSI
> > help
> > This driver family supports Serial ATA host controllers
>
> Did you verify that this works?
> Overwise "depends on SCSI=y" might also be correct.
Yes, I did.
The problem is that all the SATA drivers depend on SCSI_SATA.
With SCSI=m and SCSI_SATA=y this allows the static enabling of the SATA
drivers with unwanted effects, e.g.:
- SCSI=m, SCSI_SATA=y, SCSI_ATA_ADMA=y
-> SCSI_ATA_ADMA is built statically but scsi/built-in.o is not linked
into the kernel
- SCSI=m, SCSI_SATA=y, SCSI_ATA_ADMA=y, SCSI_SATA_AHCI=m
-> SCSI_ATA_ADMA and libata are built statically but
scsi/built-in.o is not linked into the kernel,
SCSI_SATA_AHCI is built modular (unresolved symbols due to missing
libata)
Making SCSI_SATA a tristate solves all these problems.
"depends on SCSI=y" would also solve these problems, but it would leave
people with modular SCSI without SATA support...
> bye, Roman
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-09 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-08 21:48 [2.6 patch] SCSI_SATA has to be a tristate Adrian Bunk
2005-07-08 23:36 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-09 0:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-07-09 1:24 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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2005-07-15 21:35 Adrian Bunk
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2005-07-02 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-07-03 14:01 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
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