From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:20:06 +0200 Message-ID: <46EBDC06.3030202@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <46EAA08F.30703@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070914151522.GL3563@stusta.de> <46EAAAC1.3050409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070914190033.GA4003@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070914190609.GN3563@stusta.de> <20070915114055.GP3563@stusta.de> <46EBCEF1.4030702@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070915125055.GQ3563@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:39450 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750839AbXIONU5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:20:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070915125055.GQ3563@stusta.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Sam Ravnborg , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these >>> drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support >>> for disk, CD,... ... > If users who don't need it now enable CONFIG_SCSI (and drivers/ide/ > usage is not that uncommon) that's a regression in the user interface. Aha, first all interconnects/transports are configured. If none of them 'select'ed SCSI, the menu for sd, sr, st stays invisible. Otherwise it is exposed. It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--= -==== http://arcgraph.de/sr/