From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: ISCSI build failure Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:02:27 -0800 Message-ID: <4547B9E3.4070307@oracle.com> References: <200610291945.16948.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <20061029190357.98fc9c98.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20061030083230.5e889415.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <1162327892.13859.67.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <4547B6D5.1050208@oracle.com> <1162328587.13859.71.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:1625 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945999AbWJaVG6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:06:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1162328587.13859.71.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Roman Zippel , Toralf F_rster , scsi , akpm James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:49 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> I'd prefer to avoid the use of 'select' if at all possible. > > But given that we do use it, I'd prefer it to come without having to > work out what the strings of implied dependencies are. We only use it > for enabling our infrastructure pieces (i.e. we want to present a > Parallel HBA choice, but if it requires the SPI transport class we don't > want the user to not select that and then wonder why they're not seeing > the HBA driver they need, hence the HBA will select the transport > class). I suppose that means that you had rather stick with 'select' intead of use 'depends' ? -- ~Randy