Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sat Sep 08 2007 - 12:50:45 EST


On 08 Sep 2007 18:07:00 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:

> Folkert van Heusden <folkert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly
> > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller
> > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected?
>
> This has also bitten me one or two times. A reasonable way would
> be to just select SD automatically for !EMBEDDED
>
> Here's a patch:
>
> -Andi
>
> Select BLK_DEV_SD for all SCSI/libata drivers
>
> This avoid a common user mistake.

I'd say that someone needs to use a vendor kernel, or at least
begin with a vendor .config file...


> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>

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~Randy
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