From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
<linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:11:43 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0801061206500.7367-100000@netrider.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801060652390.16883@asgard.lang.hm>
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 david@lang.hm 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-05 15:41 [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support Al Boldi
2008-01-05 18:42 ` David Brownell
2008-01-05 19:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-05 21:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-05 21:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 23:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-05 23:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 0:35 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 0:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 11:29 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 11:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 12:32 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:23 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:18 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:13 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 13:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-06 13:57 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 14:45 ` david
2008-01-06 13:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 15:05 ` david
2008-01-06 14:08 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 17:11 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2008-01-06 18:07 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 1:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-06 11:54 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 12:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 5:03 ` Al Boldi
2008-01-06 14:39 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 17:07 ` Al Boldi
2008-01-06 17:50 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 18:01 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 18:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 20:40 ` Stefan Richter
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