Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> SCSI is a generic peripheral bus
No, not anymore. http://www.t10.org/scsi-3.htm
> (recall the expansion of the acronym).
The expansion of the acronym doesn't fit anymore to what SCSI is today,
or even to what it became already circa 10 years ago.
> Even though proba
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> >> +menu "Storage (core and SCSI commands)"
> >>
> >> config SCSI
> >> - tristate "SCSI device support"
> >> + tristate "Storage support (core and SCSI commands)"
> >>depends on BLOCK
> >>select SCSI_DMA if HAS_DMA
> >>---help---
> >> .
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:23:13PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> @Greg:
> Do you have any numbers regarding how your "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell"
> is selling?
It is selling reasonably well for an O'Reilly book from what I have been
told. But I have not seen any real numbers yet.
> Even downlo
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>> Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Stefan Richter wrote:
Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Stefan Richter wrote:
> >> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> >> Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to
> >> add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level prov
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to
add such options into all menus which conta
Stefan Richter wrote:
Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to
add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers.
Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is wha
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to
>> add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers.
>
> Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is what is best for
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> >> It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and
> >> whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem.
> >
> > If
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and
>> whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem.
>
> If you want to do it in a really perfect way, help texts aren't the
> solution
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>> There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these
> >>> drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support
> >>> for disk, CD,...
> ...
> > If users who don't need it
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> There should first be the lowlevel SCSI, SATA, USB etc. drivers, these
>>> drivers should select CONFIG_SCSI, and then the menu offering support
>>> for disk, CD,...
...
> If users who don't need it now enable CONFIG_SCSI (and drivers/ide/
> usage is not that uncommon) tha
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:24:17PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> >> # drivers/Kconfig
> >>
> >> +source "drivers/scsi/Kconfig"
> >> +
> >> menu "Device Drivers"
> >>
> >> source "drivers/base/Kconfig"
> >> @@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ source "drivers/misc/Kconfig"
> >>
> >>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:01:18PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> drivers/Kconfig |4
>> drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 1589 --
>> drivers/scsi/Kconfig.lowlevel | 1578 +
>> 3 files changed,
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:01:18PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> On 14 Sep, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:00:33PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >> Hi Stefan.
> >>
> >> Such a patch really calls for some minimal unifacation among
> >> the architectures.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > arc
I wrote:
> Applies after patch "SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI
> core's widespread usage",
Actually the addition "This menu also presents options for specific SCSI
controllers..." from that patch is then no longer true.
> These two patches could very well be collapsed into one.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:00:33PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Stefan.
>
> Such a patch really calls for some minimal unifacation among
> the architectures.
>
> >
> > arch/alpha/Kconfig|2
> > arch/arm/Kconfig |2
> > arch/avr32/Kconfig|2
Hi Stefan.
Such a patch really calls for some minimal unifacation among
the architectures.
>
> arch/alpha/Kconfig|2
> arch/arm/Kconfig |2
> arch/avr32/Kconfig|2
> arch/blackfin/Kconfig |2
> arch/cris/Kconfig |2
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