From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: "René Bolldorf" <xsecute@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch]: Enable SCSI Wait Scan only if BLK_DEV_INITRD is set.
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:08:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B83FD7E.1070601@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B830AEB.3010905@googlemail.com>
René Bolldorf wrote:
(I'm not sure whether the maintainers are going to accept that change
this time around, but anyway:)
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> index 9191d1e..b785703 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> @@ -258,21 +258,22 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
> or async on the kernel's command line.
>
> config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
> - tristate # No prompt here, this is an invisible symbol.
> + tristate "SCSI Wait Scan"
> default m
> depends on SCSI
> + depends on SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
> depends on MODULES
[...]
> + depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD
There needs to be an additional "depends on m" now that you made it
visible, so that it cannot be set to y.
> + help
> + scsi_wait_scan is a loadable module which waits until all the async scans are
> + complete. The idea is to use it in initrd/ initramfs scripts. You modprobe
> + it after all the modprobes of the root SCSI drivers and it will wait until
> + they have all finished scanning their buses before allowing the boot to
> + proceed.
[...]
> + People that use a initramfs should say Y or M.
They "...should say M." actually.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-23 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-22 22:53 [Patch]: Enable SCSI Wait Scan only if BLK_DEV_INITRD is set René Bolldorf
2010-02-23 16:08 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2010-02-23 18:57 ` René Bolldorf
2010-02-23 20:52 ` Joe Eykholt
2010-02-23 21:07 ` Stefan Richter
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