linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2]

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608300311430.6761@scrub.home>
Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:12:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer
 [try #2]

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Stefan Richter wrote:

> 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.

You can also add a simple comment which is only visible if !SCSI.

bye, Roman
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