On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 18:07 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Folkert van Heusden <folkert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? > > This has also bitten me one or two times. A reasonable way would > be to just select SD automatically for !EMBEDDED > > Here's a patch: > > -Andi > > Select BLK_DEV_SD for all SCSI/libata drivers > > This avoid a common user mistake. I can see where you're coming from, but logically, this is wrong. There's a huge slew of enterprise machines that only have DVD on SATA. On the other hand, all of these machines will have SCSI disk devices on various other transports, so no harm is done, it's just an inelegant solution. 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
