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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2X_X always enabled?
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On 22 Apr 2004 13:28:46 -0400 James Bottomley wrote:

| On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:12, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > As it is, for some large %age of users (say 99% ?), those 6 qla drivers
| > show up in the config menu when they aren't needed or wanted.
| > They get in the way.
| 
| So you want a "Do you want Qlogic drivers" question followed by the 6
| drivers if Y?
| 
| I'm less enthused about that.  I know there's precedent for it in the
| net drivers, but I've always thought it caused more confusion than it
| removed.  Traditionally, in SCSI, we've always presented every possible
| driver in our list.
| 
| I thought the initial complaint you were trying to fix was the "why does
| this show up in my .config one"?

The initial complaint was in $SUBJECT:
.config file always contains CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y

and that's not needed, but the Kconfig file as is causes that.
Then that causes the further noise.

--
~Randy