From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
James Bottomley <james.bottomley@steeleye.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:20:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EBDC06.3030202@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070915125055.GQ3563@stusta.de>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these
>>> drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support
>>> for disk, CD,...
...
> If users who don't need it now enable CONFIG_SCSI (and drivers/ide/
> usage is not that uncommon) that's a regression in the user interface.
Aha, first all interconnects/transports are configured. If none of them
'select'ed SCSI, the menu for sd, sr, st stays invisible. Otherwise it
is exposed.
It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and
whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem.
--
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-=== =--= -====
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-15 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ 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
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 [this message]
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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