Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support

Adrian Bunk
2008-01-05T21:04:17Z

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:30:24AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:41:39 +0300 Al Boldi wrote:
>
> >
> > Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support.
> >
> >
> > Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> > Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > --- 23.a/drivers/usb/storage/Kconfig
> > +++ 23.b/drivers/usb/storage/Kconfig
> > @@ -2,14 +2,10 @@
> > # USB Storage driver configuration
> > #
> >
> > -comment "NOTE: USB_STORAGE needs SCSI, and 'SCSI disk support' may"
> > - depends on USB
> > -comment "also be needed; see USB_STORAGE Help for more information"
> > - depends on USB
> > -
> > menuconfig USB_STORAGE
> > tristate "USB Mass Storage support"
> > - depends on USB && SCSI
> > + depends on USB
> > + select SCSI
>
> We try not to use 'select' on subsystems and try to limit its use
> to library-like code that is relatively small. Selecting SCSI
> breaks both of those efforts.
>...

_You_ are trying to do this.

For kconfig users, "select" is _much_ better than sending them through
different menus.

cu
Adrian

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