From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:00:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189371621.3526.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73fy1p9m57.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 18:07 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly
> > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller
> > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected?
>
> This has also bitten me one or two times. A reasonable way would
> be to just select SD automatically for !EMBEDDED
>
> Here's a patch:
>
> -Andi
>
> Select BLK_DEV_SD for all SCSI/libata drivers
>
> This avoid a common user mistake.
I can see where you're coming from, but logically, this is wrong.
There's a huge slew of enterprise machines that only have DVD on SATA.
On the other hand, all of these machines will have SCSI disk devices on
various other transports, so no harm is done, it's just an inelegant
solution.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-09 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 12:48 sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-07 14:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-07 14:58 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-07 19:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-07 23:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-08 7:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-07 15:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-07 15:59 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-07 16:21 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-07 23:05 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-09-08 7:05 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 7:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-08 7:56 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 16:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-08 16:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 16:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-08 19:45 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 8:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-13 8:50 ` Helge Hafting
2007-09-14 16:42 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2007-09-14 18:44 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 16:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 16:50 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-08 16:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-08 18:13 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 18:30 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 19:32 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-09 21:00 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-09-09 21:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-09 21:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-09 21:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-09 21:39 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-10 6:38 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-10 12:43 ` Rene Herman
2007-09-11 20:16 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-09-12 22:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 14:54 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 15:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 15:37 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:01 ` [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 18:02 ` [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 18:04 ` [PATCH] SCSI: trailing whitespace in Kconfig Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 19:00 ` [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 19:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 20:01 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 11:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 12:24 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 12:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 13:20 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 13:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 14:11 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 14:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 15:27 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 15:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 16:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 16:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-15 19:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 20:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-16 20:12 ` Greg KH
2007-09-15 16:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-17 11:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-17 14:46 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 20:20 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 21:22 ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 18:54 ` [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 20:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 20:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 21:06 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 21:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 21:14 ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 22:02 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 6:16 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 10:52 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 12:30 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 12:53 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 12:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 13:19 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:16 ` sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 16:50 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 8:04 ` Paul Rolland
2007-09-15 8:25 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 13:00 ` Paul Rolland
2007-09-15 15:50 ` x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig) Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 16:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-15 17:13 ` [PATCH] x86_64: configure HPET_EMULATE_RTC automatically Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 18:23 ` sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig david
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2007-09-08 3:52 Al Boldi
2007-09-08 13:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-08 14:03 ` Al Boldi
2007-09-08 16:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-09 4:11 ` Al Boldi
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2007-09-08 16:52 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-09-08 18:22 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 18:54 ` Randy Dunlap
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