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SubjectRe: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible
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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