Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:53:23 +0100 | From | Nicolas Mailhot <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] [linux-2.4.0] drivers/usb/Config.in |
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Le dim, 07 jan 2001 18:37:11, Greg KH a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:04:40PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Here is a patchlet to stop people searching for the > > mysteriously hidden USB Mass Storage driver (in case they > > didn't make the connection with SCSI at once like me). > > I wouldn't recommend this one. If you do this, should we do the same > for all of the other dependencies in the USB config section? Like > VIDEO, SOUND, and others? That would make for a _big_ mess.
Well, it's certainly not the first patch of this kind to make it into the USB config file (see input core), so if a precedant was set, it wasn't by this patch. Do we need to do this for every dependency ? I don't know, IMHO only for the non obvious ones (and anyway, that's just a bit of documentation, what's wrong with having more doc ?)
And the dependency between USB Mass Storage and SCSI support is more than sufficiently obscure for the end-user to justify this one. Comme on, who -- appart from the driver developpers -- would think of it at once by itself ? I do know I spent almost more time searching for the Mass Storage driver option than writing/testing this patch, since I've got a SCSI-less system.
Knowing that something requires VIDEO or SOUND, on the other hand, do not requires deep knowledge of the driver sources.
Regards,
-- Nicolas Mailhot
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