Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:12:11 +0300 | From | Boaz Harrosh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] Make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG. |
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On 07/14/2009 04:29 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:38 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> On 07/13/2009 10:43 PM, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes: >>> Dammit, I messed up here sending this patch. I've just edited the >>> subject line and re-sent it with a bit more description. I think this >>> patch is perfectly good to go into 2.6.31 right now, esp since it's >>> not changing code, just whether the code is turned on by default from >>> now on. >>> >> I would like it if you'd also CC stable@kernel.org on this patch. As this >> condition is already true for distros in the field. > > The stable tree is for bug *fixes*. Moving an option out from under > experimental is basically an enhancement, even if it could be argued it > should have been done long ago. >
wouldn't you consider it a bug if a low-level plumbing like Udev is shipped with hard dependency on it?
if Udev was part of Kconfig it would have a "depend" on bsg. But because it's a different product it can only rely on defaults?
> James > >
Thanks Boaz
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