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

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Date:	Sun, 9 Sep 2007 23:22:00 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

> The current setup expresses the dependencies as they exist -- OPTIONAL 
> extras, and that is a problem once a year or so, when someone builds 

Disk support over SCSI/SATA is hardly an "optional extra". It's more the 99+%
case.

> their own kernel but must learn this fact anew.

When it costs 10000 people half an hour to learn and correct this it 
wasted 5000 hours of previous livetime.

Besides there is no good reason to have ever learned this imho.

-Andi

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