Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer[try #2]

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Stefan Richter wrote:

> An easy but crude fix would be to add an according hint at the help text of
> the immediately superordinate config option. E.g. at IEEE1394: "Also enable
> SCSI support to be able to switch on SBP-2 support (IEEE 1394 protocol e.g.
> for storage devices)." But this is extremely ugly /1./ because it would litter
> help texts of generic options with redundant information about specific
> options and /2./ because it requires users to find and read help texts in
> order to convince the configurator to make options visible.

You can also add a simple comment which is only visible if !SCSI.

bye, Roman
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