linux-kernel - Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

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Message-id: <45762781.8020207@shaw.ca>
Date:	Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:14:25 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Ed Sweetman <safemode2@...cast.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

Ed Sweetman wrote:
> What's not a legitimate configuration is libata drivers, no low level 
> scsi drivers, no ide drivers and no sd,sr,sg drivers.  Yet, that is the 
> configuration the kernel currently gives you. How is that more correct 
> than any of the 3 solutions I have suggested?

You can't build libata without low-level SCSI drivers. CONFIG_ATA 
automatically selects CONFIG_SCSI.

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