Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Stefan Richter
2007-09-08T19:47:34Z

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:44:46 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD,
>>> but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e.,
>>> select does not follow the dependency chain. So usually the
>>> kernel will not build unless SCSI is enabled by the user.
...
>> I checked the dependencies. ATA depends on SCSI (actually, selects
>> SCSI), so all is well. Otherwise I would have added more dependencies
>> to ATA_SD.
>
> Ah, that's good, then.

Not completely though. Whenever a 'select' is inserted into the
dependency graph, the whole thing becomes more fragile WRT future changes.
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Stefan Richter
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