linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/19] BLOCK: Make USB storage depend on SCSI rather than selecting it [try #6]

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Message-ID: <44F54FB0.7080203@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:43:28 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
CC:	axboe@...nel.dk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/19] BLOCK: Make USB storage depend on SCSI rather than
 selecting it [try #6]

David Howells wrote:
> Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> What about this?
>> 
>>  	depends on USB
>> +	select BLOCK
>>  	select SCSI
> 
> That means you can't disable BLOCK either unless you can figure out that you
> need to turn off USB_STORAGE.  The config client won't tell you, you have to
> go trawling the Kconfig files.

Not true. Both xconfig and menuconfig tell you about _both_ "depends on"
and "select" dependencies.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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