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Message-Id: <1204841262.3062.60.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:07:42 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_AIC94XX must depend on SCSI

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This is the right fix for this bug.

Incidentally, just for future reference, this:

> We have:
> - SCSI=m
> - SCSI_AIC94XX=y
> - SCSI_MVSAS=m
> - SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y
> 
> The problem is:
> - SCSI_AIC94XX selects (and requires) SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS
> - SCSI_MVSAS selects (and requires) SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS
> - with SCSI=m a SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y is not linked into the kernel
> 
> SCSI_AIC94XX=y also results in the AIC94xx driver not being linked into 
> the kernel here (and that's also fixed by this patch), but this alone 
> wouldn't result in a build bug...

Is the right changelog for your fix (even if it got superceded), rather
than a compile dump that doesn't even mention the driver you're
patching.

James


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