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SubjectRe: What's up with CONFIG_BLK_DEV?

On Aug 24 2007 22:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Aug 24 2007 15:17, Rob Landley wrote:
>>
>>CONFIG_BLOCK disables the block layer.
>>CONFIG_BLK_DEV disables the block devices.
>
>menuconfig BLK_DEV
> bool "Block devices"
> depends on BLOCK
> default y
> ---help---
> Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
> drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
>
> If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled
> only do this if you know what you are doing.

>>Is there _ever_ a time you want the block layer but no block devices?

Well, where do you think your hard disk drivers come from? Definitely
not from the BLK_DEV menu...



Jan
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