Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and >> whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. > > If you want to do it in a really perfect way, help texts aren't the > solution. You'll have to make the options like CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR no > longer be user visible and select'ed through dummy options like e.g.: ... > tristate "USB Mass Storage hard disk support" > depends on USB_STORAGE > select BLK_DEV_SD ... > tristate "USB Mass Storage CD/DVD support" > depends on USB_STORAGE > select BLK_DEV_SR ... Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers. Also, one more question on whether CONFIG_SCSI ought to be 'select'ed: Where do scsi-core options like CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS go? -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--= -==== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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