Re: [PATCH] Kconfig bug

From: Nick Warne
Date: Sat Oct 27 2007 - 08:27:12 EST


Am I the only one seeing this issue?

On Saturday 20 October 2007 12:57:55 Nick Warne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed I had a module option being built that wasn't in menuconfig.
>
> It is missing description. I also added a brief help message.
>
> Signed off by: Nick Warne <nick@xxxxxxxxx>


Not using this patch, using menuconfig the scsi_wait option doesn't appear
anywhere for me to be able to it turn off - yet grep'ing .config will always
show this option as being built as a module.

Nick
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--- linux-current/drivers/scsi/Kconfig_old 2007-10-20 12:44:50.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-current/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2007-10-20 12:57:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -248,10 +248,17 @@
or async on the kernel's command line.

config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
- tristate
+ tristate "Wait for SCSI scan completion"
default m
depends on SCSI
depends on MODULES
+ help
+ The SCSI subsystem can probe for devices while the rest of the
+ system continues booting, and even probe devices on different
+ busses in parallel, leading to a significant speed-up.
+
+ You can load the scsi_wait_scan module to ensure that all scans
+ have completed.

menu "SCSI Transports"
depends on SCSI