From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:53:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:53:43 -0500 Received: from enst.enst.fr ([137.194.2.16]:53468 "HELO enst.enst.fr") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:53:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:53:23 +0100 From: Nicolas Mailhot To: Greg KH Cc: Nicolas Mailhot , mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jerdfelt@valinux.com Subject: Re: [Patch] [linux-2.4.0] drivers/usb/Config.in Message-ID: <20010107185323.A913@rousalka.maisel2.rezel.enst.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010107140440.E1468@rousalka.maisel2.rezel.enst.fr> <20010107093711.A2748@wirex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20010107093711.A2748@wirex.com>; from greg@kroah.com on dim, jan 07, 2001 at 18:37:11 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.0.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le dim, 07 jan 2001 18:37:11, Greg KH a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:04:40PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Here is a patchlet to stop people searching for the > > mysteriously hidden USB Mass Storage driver (in case they > > didn't make the connection with SCSI at once like me). > > I wouldn't recommend this one. If you do this, should we do the same > for all of the other dependencies in the USB config section? Like > VIDEO, SOUND, and others? That would make for a _big_ mess. Well, it's certainly not the first patch of this kind to make it into the USB config file (see input core), so if a precedant was set, it wasn't by this patch. Do we need to do this for every dependency ? I don't know, IMHO only for the non obvious ones (and anyway, that's just a bit of documentation, what's wrong with having more doc ?) And the dependency between USB Mass Storage and SCSI support is more than sufficiently obscure for the end-user to justify this one. Comme on, who -- appart from the driver developpers -- would think of it at once by itself ? I do know I spent almost more time searching for the Mass Storage driver option than writing/testing this patch, since I've got a SCSI-less system. Knowing that something requires VIDEO or SOUND, on the other hand, do not requires deep knowledge of the driver sources. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/