Re: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:42:17PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Sean Neakums wrote:
> > Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > I cannot disable SCSI completely in 2.6.4's 'menuconfig'.
> > 
> > I believe that some kernel components require SCSI to be useful and so
> > force SCSI to be activated.  One example that springs to mind is
> > usb-storage.
> 
> usb-storage should depend on SCSI rather than forcing SCSI to be
> enabled.

No, this is the way it used to be, and it caused all kinds of problems
in the past.  It was switched to use 'select' on purpose, and should
stay that way.

thanks,

greg k-h
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