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SubjectRe: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2]
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.
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Stefan Richter
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