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

Alan Stern
2008-01-06T17:11:54Z

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 david@lang.hm wrote:

> what sysadmins like me would really like is a set of scripts that could
> generate a .config from an existing system. After we have one that covers
> the hardware for the system we will then have a much better starting point
> to work from. We may disable some drivers (sound drivers on a server for
> example).

One thing is worth pointing out here. If you do remove some drivers
(like usb-storage), you may end up with a bloated configuration because
the things they selected (like SCSI) won't get removed automatically.
That's a disadvantage of using select.

Another disadvantage appears when somebody tries by hand to remove a
component (like SCSI) and finds that it magically reappears. Evidently
something is selecting it, but there's no way to find out what.

Alan Stern