The patch titled scsi: make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scsi-make-scsi-sg-v4-driver-enabled-by-default-and-remove-experimental-dependency-since-udev-depends-on-bsg.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: scsi: make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG From: John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Make Block Layer SG support v4 the default, since recent udev versions depend on this to access serial numbers and other low level info properly. This should be backported to older kernels as well, since most distros have enabled this for a long time. Signed-off-by: John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/Kconfig | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN block/Kconfig~scsi-make-scsi-sg-v4-driver-enabled-by-default-and-remove-experimental-dependency-since-udev-depends-on-bsg block/Kconfig --- a/block/Kconfig~scsi-make-scsi-sg-v4-driver-enabled-by-default-and-remove-experimental-dependency-since-udev-depends-on-bsg +++ a/block/Kconfig @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ config LBDAF If unsure, say Y. config BLK_DEV_BSG - bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL - ---help--- + bool "Block layer SG support v4" + default y + help Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support for any block device. @@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ config BLK_DEV_BSG protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial Attached SCSI). - If unsure, say N. + This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly + access device serial numbers, etc. + + If unsure, say Y. config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY bool "Block layer data integrity support" _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from john@xxxxxxxxxxx are scsi-make-scsi-sg-v4-driver-enabled-by-default-and-remove-experimental-dependency-since-udev-depends-on-bsg.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html