On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 12:06 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:22:55AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > not a big deal, but is there a reason that a "make defconfig" on my > > x86 system ends up selecting and building a single module? > > > > Building modules, stage 2. > > MODPOST 1 modules > > CC drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.mod.o > > LD [M] drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko > > > > is there something special about that module? just curious. > > My guess is that someone was paranoid and wanted not to have > to answer a zillion "my machine won't boot any more" questions > when async scsi scanning was added. > This might further clarify.. > > --- > > The scsi_wait_scan module is only really useful if async scanning > is enabled. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > index e62d23f..0f6c370 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC > config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN > tristate > default m > - depends on SCSI > + depends on SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC No. SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC is a bool ... if you depend on it, you'll force the wait scan to be built in, which isn't the idea at all. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
