Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:29:44 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible |
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Russell King wrote: >usb-storage should depend on SCSI rather than forcing SCSI to be >enabled.
Actually, it should "require" SCSI, but the kernel configuration logic does not support that.
>Using 'select' is all very well for the case where the target >configuration symbol is not user selectable, but in the case that >it is, it leads to the confusion shown above.
Indeed. "select" is very useful for enabling options that cannot otherwise be enabled. However, it gets mis-applied in cases like this to address the "stupid user" problem. (see above re: missing "require") In fact, the only place I can forgive the use of select on user selectable options in within the input layer options -- select is used to force a valid usable configuration instead of letting someone compile a kernel without any keyboard support, BUT, it's still user tunable if "embedded" is enabled.
--Ricky
(see also: http://bk.troz.com:14690/linux-2.6-bk/user=jfbeam/cset@1.1396 for additional SELECT removals.)
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