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

david
2008-01-06T13:38:52Z

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:18:48PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> I'm afraid this can't be put into practice. (User says which hardware
>>> and protocols he needs to be supported, scripts magically assemble a
>>> suitable configuration.)
>>
>> Distribution installers and live CDs like Knoppix even manage to
>> magically assemble a suitable configuration (e.g. autodetecting which
>> modules they should load) without asking the user any questions.
>
> Module autoloading is quite different.

but if boot scripts can figure out what modules to autoload, why can't
scripts be written to figure out what drives to build into a system?

David Lang