Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support

[Alan Stern]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 david@xxxxxxx wrote:

> what sysadmins like me would really like is a set of scripts that could 
> generate a .config from an existing system. After we have one that covers 
> the hardware for the system we will then have a much better starting point 
> to work from. We may disable some drivers (sound drivers on a server for 
> example).

One thing is worth pointing out here.  If you do remove some drivers 
(like usb-storage), you may end up with a bloated configuration because 
the things they selected (like SCSI) won't get removed automatically.  
That's a disadvantage of using select.

Another disadvantage appears when somebody tries by hand to remove a 
component (like SCSI) and finds that it magically reappears.  Evidently 
something is selecting it, but there's no way to find out what.

Alan Stern

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