From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 12:06:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070513160608.GA29024@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705131106160.3197@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:22:55AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> not a big deal, but is there a reason that a "make defconfig" on my
> x86 system ends up selecting and building a single module?
>
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST 1 modules
> CC drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.mod.o
> LD [M] drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
>
> is there something special about that module? just curious.
My guess is that someone was paranoid and wanted not to have
to answer a zillion "my machine won't boot any more" questions
when async scsi scanning was added.
This might further clarify..
---
The scsi_wait_scan module is only really useful if async scanning
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
index e62d23f..0f6c370 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
tristate
default m
- depends on SCSI
+ depends on SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
depends on MODULES
menu "SCSI Transports"
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-13 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-13 15:22 Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 15:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-13 16:06 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-05-13 16:10 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-13 16:18 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-13 16:30 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-14 9:35 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-14 9:45 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-14 12:00 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-14 12:23 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-14 14:31 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-15 0:41 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 11:26 ` Simon Arlott
2007-05-15 12:02 ` Asynchronous scsi scanning Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-15 16:30 ` Simon Arlott
2007-05-15 17:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-15 21:56 ` [PATCH] SCSI: Let users disable SCSI_WAIT_SCAN to be built Stefan Richter
2007-05-16 14:43 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-17 14:00 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-17 17:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 23:27 ` Asynchronous scsi scanning Satyam Sharma
2007-05-15 23:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-05-15 23:49 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 2:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-16 2:59 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-17 17:13 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-17 17:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-17 17:41 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-17 18:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17 18:47 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-17 18:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17 19:04 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-17 19:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-17 19:43 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-05-17 21:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-17 21:42 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-17 22:00 ` Peter Jones
2007-05-18 14:00 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-18 5:28 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-18 11:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-18 13:14 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-18 3:41 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-18 11:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-18 13:06 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-17 17:32 ` sysfs makes scaling suck " Benjamin LaHaise
2007-05-17 17:45 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-17 17:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-05-19 16:30 ` Greg KH
2007-05-17 22:24 ` Peter Jones
2007-05-13 16:20 ` why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module? Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 16:27 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-13 16:37 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 17:42 ` Simon Arlott
2007-05-13 17:48 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-13 18:26 ` Simon Arlott
2007-05-13 18:45 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-13 18:45 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-14 17:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-14 20:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-13 16:28 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-13 20:38 ` Simon Arlott
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