Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:25:01 +0100 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] |
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:23:18PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > > Same as above. USB_STORAGE already selects scsi so it shouldn't need > > to depend on block. > > Ah, you've got it the wrong way round. > > Because USB_STORAGE _selects_ SCSI rather than depending on it, even if SCSI > is disabled, USB_STORAGE can be enabled, and that turns on CONFIG_SCSI, even > if not all of its dependencies are available. > > Run "make allyesconfig" and then try to turn off CONFIG_SCSI without this...
Eeek. The easy fix is to change USB_STORAGE to depend on SCSI (*), but in addition to that we should probably fix Kconfig aswell to adhere to such constraints.
(*) that selects is really wrong to start with, the other scsi drivers don't select scsi either. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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