Re: [Patch]: Enable SCSI Wait Scan only if BLK_DEV_INITRD is set.

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René Bolldorf wrote:

(I'm not sure whether the maintainers are going to accept that change
this time around, but anyway:)

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> index 9191d1e..b785703 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> @@ -258,21 +258,22 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
>   	  or async on the kernel's command line.
> 
>   config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
> -	tristate  # No prompt here, this is an invisible symbol.
> +	tristate "SCSI Wait Scan"
>   	default m
>   	depends on SCSI
> +	depends on SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
>   	depends on MODULES
[...]
> +	depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD

There needs to be an additional "depends on m" now that you made it
visible, so that it cannot be set to y.

> +	help
> +	  scsi_wait_scan is a loadable module which waits until all the async scans are
> +	  complete.  The idea is to use it in initrd/ initramfs scripts.  You modprobe
> +	  it after all the modprobes of the root SCSI drivers and it will wait until
> +	  they have all finished scanning their buses before allowing the boot to
> +	  proceed.
[...]
> +	  People that use a initramfs should say Y or M.

They "...should say M." actually.
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