From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unnecessary SCSI module
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:10:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236633029.6029.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49b5689f@wupperonline.de>
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 20:06 +0100, Ingo Brueckl wrote:
> When configuring MODULES with the kernel to be able to load external drivers
> coming as modules, but not using anything as module in the kernel itself, one
> would expect to end up in a module-free kernel. Currently, you don't if you
> use SCSI. You'll get one unnecessary module.
>
> Please consider the attached patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
>
> --- linux-2.6.28/drivers/scsi/Kconfig.orig 2008-12-25 00:26:37.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.28/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2009-03-06 22:49:40.000000000 +0100
> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
> config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
> tristate
> default m
> - depends on SCSI
> + depends on SCSI = m || SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC = y
This isn't right because SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC only sets the *default*
behaviour of the kernel. Even if it's n the user can still boot up with
async scans by setting the kernel parameter.
It also keeps coming up regularly:
http://marc.info/?t=122658550300002
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-09 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 19:06 [PATCH] unnecessary SCSI module Ingo Brueckl
2009-03-09 21:10 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2009-03-10 7:00 ` Ingo Brueckl
2009-03-10 14:46 ` James Bottomley
2009-03-10 17:24 ` Stefan Richter
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