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Message-Id: <1236633029.6029.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:10:29 +0000 From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> To: Ingo Brueckl <ib@...peronline.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] unnecessary SCSI module On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 20:06 +0100, Ingo Brueckl wrote: > When configuring MODULES with the kernel to be able to load external drivers > coming as modules, but not using anything as module in the kernel itself, one > would expect to end up in a module-free kernel. Currently, you don't if you > use SCSI. You'll get one unnecessary module. > > Please consider the attached patch. > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Brueckl <ib@...peronline.de> > > --- linux-2.6.28/drivers/scsi/Kconfig.orig 2008-12-25 00:26:37.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6.28/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2009-03-06 22:49:40.000000000 +0100 > @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC > config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN > tristate > default m > - depends on SCSI > + depends on SCSI = m || SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC = y This isn't right because SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC only sets the *default* behaviour of the kernel. Even if it's n the user can still boot up with async scans by setting the kernel parameter. It also keeps coming up regularly: http://marc.info/?t=122658550300002 James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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