Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>> I am not a friend of 'select', but maybe the following actually helps.
...
> The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD,
> but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e.,
> select does not follow the dependency chain.  So usually the
> kernel will not build unless SCSI is enabled by the user.
...
>> config ATA_SD
>>     tristate "SATA/PATA HDD support (via SCSI disk support)"
>>     depends on ATA
>>     select BLK_DEV_SD
>>     help
>>       'SCSI disk support' is required to access SATA HDDs.  It is
...

I checked the dependencies.  ATA depends on SCSI (actually, selects
SCSI), so all is well.  Otherwise I would have added more dependencies
to ATA_SD.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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