On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:23:18PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Same as above. USB_STORAGE already selects scsi so it shouldn't need
> > to depend on block.
>
> Ah, you've got it the wrong way round.
>
> Because USB_STORAGE _selects_ SCSI rather than depending on it, even if SCSI
> is disabled, USB_STORAGE can be enabled, and that turns on CONFIG_SCSI, even
> if not all of its dependencies are available.
>
> Run "make allyesconfig" and then try to turn off CONFIG_SCSI without this...
Eeek. The easy fix is to change USB_STORAGE to depend on SCSI (*), but in
addition to that we should probably fix Kconfig aswell to adhere to
such constraints.
(*) that selects is really wrong to start with, the other scsi drivers don't
select scsi either.
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