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

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Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:27:08 -0400
From:	Shaya Potter <spotter@...columbia.edu>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable
	the	block	layer [try #2]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:16 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Shaya Potter wrote:
> > when I said "driver" I meant more along the line of SCSI hardware
> > instead of things that use the "Linux" scsi subsystem.
> [...]
> > So you have a "virtual" SCSI_SUBSYSTEM which usb-storage, sbp2, sata all
> > pull in by selecting it.
> > 
> > you have SCSI_HARDWARE that adaptec, buslogic, lsilogic...... depend on.
> > SCSI_HARDWARE would also select "SCSI_SUBSYSTEM".
> 
> One nit: SBP-2 is SCSI.

ok, but you should get the point.  

basically anything "selectable" perhaps should be a purely "virtual" (as
in not shown in XYZconfig) option.

how one wants to name the options doesn't really bother me.

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