Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2]

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 17:41:22 EST


On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:33:36PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Roman Zippel wrote:
> >On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Stefan Richter wrote:
> >>An easy but crude fix would be to add an according hint at the help text
> >>of
> >>the immediately superordinate config option.
> [...]
> >You can also add a simple comment which is only visible if !SCSI.
>
> Thanks, I will do so.

Please don't do this.

USB_STORAGE switched from a depending on SCSI to select'ing SCSI three
years ago, and ATA in 2.6.19 will also select SCSI for a good reason:

When doing anything kconfig related, you must always remember that the
vast majority of kconfig users are not kernel hackers.

> Stefan Richter

cu
Adrian

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