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

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 19:09:36 EST


On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:50:03AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >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.
>
> I agree with that.
> But multi-level dependencies are a show-stopper at the moment.

config IEEE1394_SBP2
tristate "SBP-2 support (Harddisks etc.)"
depends on IEEE1394 && BLOCK && (PCI || BROKEN)
select SCSI

should work fine.

> Stefan Richter

cu
Adrian

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