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

[Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 21:01 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:08:46PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> > Maybe the better solution is to remove SCSI as an option, and to just
> > offer SCSI drivers and USB-STORAGE and other SCSI core using drivers
> > instead.  Then the SCSI core gets pulled in automatically.  It's not
> > like people care about the SCSI core, just the drivers which depend on
> > it.
> 
> People don't want to have to say "no" to umpteen scsi drivers.  They
> just want to say "no" to SCSI, because they know they don't have scsi.

so then that's shows a problem with the kconfig syntax.

CONFIG_SCSI should perhaps be hidden, and what's visible to the user is
CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVER

USB-STORAGE would automatically pull in CONFIG_SCSI as would
CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVER.

or perhaps I'm just talking out of my ass.

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