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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: explain the hidden scsi_wait_scan Kconfig variable
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:28:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A38C533.3070106@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.ad6f8fb712020451@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Stefan Richter wrote:
> People keep sending patches to expose CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN as a tunable
> item.  These patches aren't accepted upstream, so let's stop the ongoing
> irritation of people due to this obscure and strange installed module
> and its Kconfig option.

PS, references:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8763
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8872
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9769
and more mailinglist references than you can shake a stick at, yet 
nobody is aware of.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--= -==- =---=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-17  2:07 [PATCH] scsi_wait_scan: no option appears when configuring for scsi_wait_scan Changli Gao
2009-06-17  2:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-06-17 10:07   ` [PATCH] SCSI: explain the hidden scsi_wait_scan Kconfig variable Stefan Richter
2009-06-17 10:28     ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2009-06-18  0:57     ` Changli Gao
2009-06-18 15:21     ` James Bottomley
2009-06-18 16:59       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-18 19:03         ` [PATCH update 1] " Stefan Richter
2009-06-18 19:03         ` [PATCH update 2] " Stefan Richter
2009-06-22  8:57           ` Alan Cox
2009-06-22 11:02             ` Matthew Wilcox

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