Re: [PATCH 5/5] Make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and removeEXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG.

[Boaz Harrosh]

On 07/14/2009 04:29 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:38 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On 07/13/2009 10:43 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Dammit, I messed up here sending this patch.  I've just edited the
>>> subject line and re-sent it with a bit more description.  I think this
>>> patch is perfectly good to go into 2.6.31 right now, esp since it's
>>> not changing code, just whether the code is turned on by default from
>>> now on.
>>>
>> I would like it if you'd also CC stable@xxxxxxxxxx on this patch. As this
>> condition is already true for distros in the field.
> 
> The stable tree is for bug *fixes*.   Moving an option out from under
> experimental is basically an enhancement, even if it could be argued it
> should have been done long ago.
> 

wouldn't you consider it a bug if a low-level plumbing like Udev is shipped
with hard dependency on it?

if Udev was part of Kconfig it would have a "depend" on bsg. But because
it's a different product it can only rely on defaults?

> James
> 
> 

Thanks
Boaz
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