Re: [PATCH] fix dependeces for CONFIG_USB_STORAGE

[Oliver Neukum]

> > Huh, why?
> 
> This HELP (taken from linux/drivers/scsi/Kconfig) is quite explicit:
> 
> config BLK_DEV_SD
>         tristate "SCSI disk support"
>         depends on SCSI
>         ---help---
>           If you want to use SCSI hard disks, Fibre Channel disks,
>           USB storage or the SCSI or parallel port version of
>           the IOMEGA ZIP drive, say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO,
>           the Disk-HOWTO and the Multi-Disk-HOWTO, available from
>           <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. This is NOT for SCSI
>           CD-ROMs.
> 
> So if you want to use USB Mass Storage devices (that use SCSI emulation) you 
> need also SCSI disk support (I have realized it when I've tried to mount 
> one those USB devices, without success).

The help text is misleading. You need SD to mount disks. There are other
devices which are not disks. In fact there are USB<->SCSI bridges, so
you could do everything SCSI can do, eg. attach an old scanner which needs
only SG.

	Regards
		Oliver
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