From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Warne Subject: Re: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 16:21:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20071208162122.7e77601e@linuxamd.linicks.net> References: <20071207191242.71a9cc3e@linuxamd.linicks.net> <475A9810.4070104@anagramm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:37780 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751663AbXLHQVZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:21:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <475A9810.4070104@anagramm.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Clemens Koller Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:11:44 +0100 Clemens Koller wrote: > Nick Warne schrieb: > > I am bringing this up again - primarily as I forgot about it after > > patching my build tree ages ago: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/27/68 Subject: Re: Fw: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:47:56 -0700 On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:39:53PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote: > I try not to build a modular kernel, but only have modules ON due to > nVidia (sigh). So I was semi-surprised when I saw the scsi_wait_scan > module being built again, yet NO WHERE in menuconfig is it present to > turn OFF. Even if I hand edit .config, make puts it back again... On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:47:56 -0700 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > You have modules on ... which means you might decide to load a scsi > driver as a module. Maybe one that isn't part of the source tree. > The scsi_wait_scan module is only 1500 bytes. Apart from a sense of > ideological purity (odd in someone who chooses to use nVidia rather > than, say, nv or nouveau), this really isn't a problem. > > Please see the patch I sent some days ago, which does the very > same thing: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119677244318528&w=2 > > True... Well, that's two of us would that like to be able to stop it building :-) Nick -- Free Software Foundation Associate Member 5508