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Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...>, Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-scsi@...>

Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Date: Sunday, September 9, 2007 - 5:22 pm

> The current setup expresses the dependencies as they exist -- OPTIONAL 
quoted text> extras, and that is a problem once a year or so, when someone builds 

Disk support over SCSI/SATA is hardly an "optional extra". It's more the 99+%
case.

quoted text> their own kernel but must learn this fact anew.

When it costs 10000 people half an hour to learn and correct this it 
wasted 5000 hours of previous livetime.

Besides there is no good reason to have ever learned this imho.

-Andi

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sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 8:48 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 8, 12:07 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, James Bottomley, (Sun Sep 9, 5:00 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sun Sep 9, 5:03 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jeff Garzik, (Sun Sep 9, 5:11 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Sep 12, 6:46 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 10:54 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Sep 14, 11:15 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Paul Rolland, (Sat Sep 15, 4:04 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, , (Sat Sep 15, 2:23 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 4:25 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Paul Rolland, (Sat Sep 15, 9:00 am)

x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was ..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 11:50 am)

Re: x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (..., Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 15, 12:21 pm)

[PATCH] x86_64: configure HPET_EMULATE_RTC automatically, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 1:13 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 11:37 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Sep 14, 12:16 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 12:50 pm)

[PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 12:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Sep 14, 2:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 4:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Sep 14, 4:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 5:06 pm)

[PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SC..., Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 5:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 8:59 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 9:19 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., FUJITA Tomonori, (Fri Sep 14, 6:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 2:16 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., FUJITA Tomonori, (Sat Sep 15, 6:52 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 8:30 am)

Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicat..., FUJITA Tomonori, (Sat Sep 15, 8:53 am)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Sep 14, 5:11 pm)

[RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 2:02 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 4:20 pm)

[PATCH update] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 5:22 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Sam Ravnborg, (Fri Sep 14, 3:00 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Fri Sep 14, 3:06 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 4:01 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 7:40 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 8:24 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Maciej W. Rozycki, (Mon Sep 17, 7:29 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Mon Sep 17, 10:46 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 8:50 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 9:20 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 9:53 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 10:11 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 10:43 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 15, 11:27 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 12:42 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Jeff Garzik, (Sat Sep 15, 11:44 am)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 15, 12:23 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Greg KH, (Sun Sep 16, 4:12 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Sat Sep 15, 12:52 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Jeff Garzik, (Sat Sep 15, 3:17 pm)

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Sat Sep 15, 4:54 pm)

[PATCH] SCSI: trailing whitespace in Kconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 2:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI ..., Jeff Garzik, (Fri Sep 14, 12:29 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sun Sep 9, 5:22 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Bauke Jan Douma, (Tue Sep 11, 4:16 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, James Bottomley, (Sun Sep 9, 5:39 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Mon Sep 10, 2:38 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 8:43 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 8, 12:50 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 8, 2:13 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 2:30 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Andi Kleen, (Sat Sep 8, 3:14 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:32 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Sep 8, 12:53 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Fri Sep 7, 11:35 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Helge Hafting, (Thu Sep 13, 4:50 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Goswin von Brederlow, (Fri Sep 14, 12:42 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 14, 2:44 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Sep 8, 4:43 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 11:59 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Fri Sep 7, 12:21 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 7:05 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:05 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 8, 12:31 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 12:44 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 8, 12:48 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:45 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 8, 3:29 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Stefan Richter, (Sat Sep 8, 3:56 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Sep 7, 10:40 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Folkert van Heusden, (Fri Sep 7, 10:58 am)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Krzysztof Halasa, (Fri Sep 7, 3:38 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Sep 7, 7:02 pm)

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 8, 3:27 am)

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