linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] scsi: RAID

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Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:17:20 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] scsi: RAID_ATTRS depends on SCSI

Hi James,

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:06:56 +0530 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de> wrote:
>
> This will fix the error, but it's not quite the right thing to do.  the
> RAID class should be independent of SCSI, but it wants to do a SCSI
> check if SCSI is compiled in the matching routines.  This gives us a
> nasty dependency, the condition being that the raid class must be m if
> SCSI is m.
> 
> I think this patch does the right thing.  Can someone test it on the
> config checker?  Or I can just put it in linux-next and have Stephen's
> builds do it.

My tree for today has Randy's fix in it.  Also, you should really test
against Linus' tree as that is where the problem currently lies.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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