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SubjectRe: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig
Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>> I am not a friend of 'select', but maybe the following actually helps.
...
> The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD,
> but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e.,
> select does not follow the dependency chain. So usually the
> kernel will not build unless SCSI is enabled by the user.
...
>> config ATA_SD
>> tristate "SATA/PATA HDD support (via SCSI disk support)"
>> depends on ATA
>> select BLK_DEV_SD
>> help
>> 'SCSI disk support' is required to access SATA HDDs. It is
...

I checked the dependencies. ATA depends on SCSI (actually, selects
SCSI), so all is well. Otherwise I would have added more dependencies
to ATA_SD.
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Stefan Richter
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