linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH update 2] SCSI: explain the hidden scsi_wait

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:57:01 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH update 2] SCSI: explain the hidden scsi_wait_scan
 Kconfig variable

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:03:23 +0200 (CEST)
Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> People keep sending patches to expose CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN as a tunable
> item.  These patches aren't accepted upstream, so let's stop the ongoing
> irritation of people due to the unconditionally installed module and its
> Kconfig symbol.

How about the other possibility. People keepmaking it tunable because it
makes sense for it to be tunable. Far better IMHO to make it tunable "if
EMBEDDED"

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