Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:13:33 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] |
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I wrote: > If SCSI is set to "N", then any menu items which depend on SCSI are not > visible anymore. [...] > If "select" cannot be fixed or is not en vogue for any other reason, the > configuration tools need to be improved otherwise, so that users are > guided to options like USB_STORAGE and IEEE1394_SBP2 when SCSI or other > "foreign" options were disabled.
An easy but crude fix would be to add an according hint at the help text of the immediately superordinate config option. E.g. at IEEE1394: "Also enable SCSI support to be able to switch on SBP-2 support (IEEE 1394 protocol e.g. for storage devices)." But this is extremely ugly /1./ because it would litter help texts of generic options with redundant information about specific options and /2./ because it requires users to find and read help texts in order to convince the configurator to make options visible. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =--- ===-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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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