From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030814AbXDLWI1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030797AbXDLWI1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:27 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:60922 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030784AbXDLWI0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: kconfig patch to make cciss dependent on scsi for SG_IO ioctl From: James Bottomley To: "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, steve.cameron@hp.com In-Reply-To: <20070412212741.GA10654@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> References: <20070412212741.GA10654@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:07:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1176415635.3711.25.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 16:27 -0500, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: > This kconfig patch makes cciss dependent on scsi for the new SG_IO ioctl we just > added. If cciss is built into the kernel it makes sures that scsi is also statically > linked. If scsi is a module then cciss will also be built as a module. Please consider > this for inclusion. Erm, I don't think this is necessary: SG_IO is a property of the block layer, not SCSI (as in it will work without SCSI even present). SCSI has a special driver: the sg driver that has its own implementation of SG_IO, but that's the only connection. James