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..
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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"
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