Re: Why is CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2X_X always enabled?

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:15:52 -0700 Randy.Dunlap wrote:

| 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.

BTW, thanks for clarifying that.  Now we (or I) know.

| | 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

which isn't a problem by itself, as you suggest (maybe?).

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

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~Randy