----- Original Message -----
From: Arjan van de Ven <adve@oce.nl>
To: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: 2.3.99pre1, ide-scsi, scsi, modules
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003152224130.14829-200000@gwyn.tux.org> you
wrote:
> > Matt-
>
> > Try the enclosed patch. It corrects two issues, actually - it
> > fixes the one whereby the dependency isn't right for ide-scsi, and it
also
> > should correct the issue of using USB compiled into the kernel and
module
> > support is turned off (because the SCSI entrypoints for modules aren't
> > built if modules are turned off).
>
> Ehh... Isn't the ide-scsi question asked before the SCSI question?
> (It was so a year a go, and the only way to "solve" this, was by
> adding a #warning / #error to it, you should be able to find it in the
> code)
Yes and no. If you are using menuconfig or xconfig then it isn't a huge
problem as you are not required to navigate the thing in any particular
order. If you are running the vanilla configure script then yes, you are
right.
> Forward-dependencies ARE a big problem for the current Config.in system,
> and the only way to solve them (this is not the only one) is to add a
second
> pass to the config scripts. (It can be done, my patch just didn't make it
> into the kernel).
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