linux-kernel - Re: What's up with CONFIG_BLK

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Date:	Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:41:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's up with CONFIG_BLK_DEV?


On Aug 26 2007 01:08, Rob Landley wrote:
>On Friday 24 August 2007 3:36:54 pm Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> >>Is there _ever_ a time you want the block layer but no block devices?
>>
>> Well, where do you think your hard disk drivers come from? Definitely
>> not from the BLK_DEV menu...
>
>Now that I look I see that all the devices in this menu (at least in User Mode 
>Linux) are actually virtual block devices (UBD, loopback, and ramdisk), which 
>the menu help doesn't indicate.

Nah, BLK_DEV is like MISC_DEV. There's all sort of stuff in it, _not only_
virtual things. FLOPPY comes to mind.


	Jan
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