Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_AIC94XX must depend on SCSI

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 17:08:13 EST


On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This is the right fix for this bug.

Incidentally, just for future reference, this:

> We have:
> - SCSI=m
> - SCSI_AIC94XX=y
> - SCSI_MVSAS=m
> - SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y
>
> The problem is:
> - SCSI_AIC94XX selects (and requires) SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS
> - SCSI_MVSAS selects (and requires) SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS
> - with SCSI=m a SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y is not linked into the kernel
>
> SCSI_AIC94XX=y also results in the AIC94xx driver not being linked into
> the kernel here (and that's also fixed by this patch), but this alone
> wouldn't result in a build bug...

Is the right changelog for your fix (even if it got superceded), rather
than a compile dump that doesn't even mention the driver you're
patching.

James


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