linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support

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Message-ID: <4780DA92.6050403@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:41:38 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	david@...g.hm
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage	support

David Lang wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Module autoloading is quite different.
> 
> but if boot scripts can figure out what modules to autoload, why can't
> scripts be written to figure out what drives to build into a system?

Because build-time configuration has to deal with different, more
complex questions than run-time configuration.  For starters, build-time
configuration narrows down the options for run-time configuration.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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