linux-kernel - Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module?

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Message-ID: <20070513163023.GE27604@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 13 May 2007 12:30:23 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module?

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:18:35AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
 > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 11:10 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
 > > > -	depends on SCSI
 > > > +	depends on SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
 > > 
 > > No.  SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC is a bool ... if you depend on it, you'll force the
 > > wait scan to be built in, which isn't the idea at all.
 > 
 > Plus SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC only sets the *default* for async scanning.  You
 > can alter this at boot time, so you could need the wait scan module even
 > with it set to N.

Ah, good point.

	Dave

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