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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski@broadnet-mediascape.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:59:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040402165941.GA29046@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040402144216.A12306@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:42:17PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Sean Neakums wrote:
> > Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski@broadnet-mediascape.de> writes:
> > 
> > > I cannot disable SCSI completely in 2.6.4's 'menuconfig'.
> > 
> > I believe that some kernel components require SCSI to be useful and so
> > force SCSI to be activated.  One example that springs to mind is
> > usb-storage.
> 
> usb-storage should depend on SCSI rather than forcing SCSI to be
> enabled.

No, this is the way it used to be, and it caused all kinds of problems
in the past.  It was switched to use 'select' on purpose, and should
stay that way.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-02 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-02 13:09 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible Olaf Zaplinski
2004-04-02 13:18 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-04-02 13:21 ` Sean Neakums
2004-04-02 13:42   ` Russell King
2004-04-02 14:03     ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-02 16:59     ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-04-02 17:16       ` Russell King
2004-04-02 17:56         ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-04-02 18:14         ` Greg KH
2004-04-05 22:17         ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-06  8:42           ` Russell King
2004-04-06 10:46             ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-06 11:03               ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-02 19:29     ` Ricky Beam

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