On Sun, 13 May 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > 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. since this thread looks like it's going to get away from me in a hurry :-), my only point in asking was to point out that that lone module was the only thing preventing the build from being module-free. i'm not saying that that's *necessarily* a good thing, but it just strikes me as odd that, out of all of the possible modules that might be selected in a default config for x86, this was the *only* one that was picked. i just think it's a bit weird, that's all. rday p.s. it's mostly a case of -- whenever i notice something being done only *once* in the entire source tree, i'm always a bit leery. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - 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
