>>> On 22.02.11 at 19:14, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:29:30 +0000
>
>> The CHELSIO_T{3,4}_DEPENDS options are really awkward, and can be
>> easily dropped if the reverse dependencies of SCSI_CXGB{3,4}_ISCSI on
>> the former get converted to normal (forward) ones referring to
>> CHELSIO_T{3,4}.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I think the goal of these strange rules is not to be complicated
> on purpose, but rather to cause the iSCSI drivers to appear without
> the user having to know that he needs to enable the networking
> driver in order for that to happen.
While I realize that this might have been the reason, it's completely
contrary to how everyone else writes dependencies, and hence I
think these should be removed.
Jan
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