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Message-Id: <20061207084307.7e6de9ec.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:43:07 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild : Make Fusion MPT selectable from "Device
 drivers" menu

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:59:52 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   Rewrite the Fusion MPT Kconfig file so that all of MPT functionality
> is entirely selectable from "Device drivers."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>

but I think that you should cc: the FUSION email addresses
that are listed in the MAINTAINERS file...


> ---
> 
>   The original Kconfig file seems to have an odd structure, as you can
> see from the first part of the file:
> 
> ========================================================
> menu "Fusion MPT device support"
> 
> config FUSION
>         bool
>         default n
> 
> config FUSION_SPI
>         tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI"
>         depends on PCI && SCSI
>         select FUSION
>         select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
>         ...
> ========================================================
> 
>   note how the majority of entries in that file don't directly
> *depend* on FUSION.  instead, they depend on *external* config
> variables, and *select* FUSION, and this is not the only place i've
> noticed that kind of dependency wording.
> 
>   is that a regular feature?  having that structure certainly makes it
> slightly more difficult to rewrite the menu entries, and it's not
> clear there's any obvious advantage to doing it that way.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig b/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
> index ea31d84..b2da14d 100644
> --- a/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
> @@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
> -
> -menu "Fusion MPT device support"
> -
> -config FUSION
> -	bool
> +menuconfig FUSION
> +	bool "Fusion MPT device support"
>  	default n
> 
> +if FUSION
> +
>  config FUSION_SPI
>  	tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI"
>  	depends on PCI && SCSI
> -	select FUSION
>  	select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
>  	---help---
>  	  SCSI HOST support for a parallel SCSI host adapters.
> @@ -23,7 +21,6 @@ config FUSION_SPI
>  config FUSION_FC
>  	tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for FC"
>  	depends on PCI && SCSI
> -	select FUSION
>  	select SCSI_FC_ATTRS
>  	---help---
>  	  SCSI HOST support for a Fiber Channel host adapters.
> @@ -40,7 +37,6 @@ config FUSION_FC
>  config FUSION_SAS
>  	tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SAS"
>  	depends on PCI && SCSI
> - 	select FUSION
>  	select SCSI_SAS_ATTRS
>  	---help---
>  	  SCSI HOST support for a SAS host adapters.
> @@ -100,4 +96,4 @@ config FUSION_LAN
> 
>  	  If unsure whether you really want or need this, say N.
> 
> -endmenu
> +endif
> -


---
~Randy
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