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DateThu, 24 Aug 2006 18:23:55 +0200
FromStefan Richter <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer
David Howells wrote:
...
> (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
> an item that uses the block layer. This includes:
...
> (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
> block layer to do scheduling.
>
> (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE, the old CDROM
> drivers and USB storage.
...

Side note w/o consequence for your patch: usb-storage is not a
block-based device driver. It is a SCSI low-level provider which happens
to need symbols from the block layer to adjust parameters of the SCSI
request queue since there are no fitting abstractions supplied by the
SCSI mid-level.
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Stefan Richter
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