Re: [PATCH] Kconfig bug

[Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>]

Am I the only one seeing this issue?

On Saturday 20 October 2007 12:57:55 Nick Warne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed I had a module option being built that wasn't in menuconfig.
>
> It is missing description.  I also added a brief help message.
>
> Signed off by:  Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>


Not using this patch, using menuconfig the scsi_wait option doesn't appear 
anywhere for me to be able to it turn off - yet grep'ing .config will always 
show this option as being built as a module.

Nick
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--- linux-current/drivers/scsi/Kconfig_old	2007-10-20 12:44:50.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-current/drivers/scsi/Kconfig	2007-10-20 12:57:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -248,10 +248,17 @@
 	  or async on the kernel's command line.
 
 config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
-	tristate
+	tristate "Wait for SCSI scan completion"
 	default m
 	depends on SCSI
 	depends on MODULES
+	help
+	  The SCSI subsystem can probe for devices while the rest of the
+	  system continues booting, and even probe devices on different
+	  busses in parallel, leading to a significant speed-up.
+
+	  You can load the scsi_wait_scan module to ensure that all scans
+	  have completed.
 
 menu "SCSI Transports"
 	depends on SCSI