linux-kernel - Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

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Message-Id: <20070908095008.08eb4930.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:50:08 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

On 08 Sep 2007 18:07:00 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:

> Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly
> > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller
> > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected?
> 
> This has also bitten me one or two times. A reasonable way would
> be to just select SD automatically for !EMBEDDED
> 
> Here's a patch:
> 
> -Andi
> 
> Select BLK_DEV_SD for all SCSI/libata drivers
> 
> This avoid a common user mistake.

I'd say that someone needs to use a vendor kernel, or at least
begin with a vendor .config file...


> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

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~Randy
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