Re: [2.6 patch] show "Fusion MPT device support" menu only if BLK _DEV_SD

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 13:03:35 EST


On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:00:09PM -0500, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> The "config FUSION" entry in Kconfig is handling both mptbase.ko
> and mptscsih.ko for some reason?
>
> The mptbase.ko driver is the lower layer driver which configures
> the adapters and is transport layer to and from the chip. It doesn't
> depend on anything in the scsi mid layer.
>
> The mptscsih.ko does depend on scsi_mod.ko, but not sd.ko
>
> Therefore - maybe we could have separate entries in Kconfig for
> both mptbase and mptscsih. mptbase depend on PCI, and mptscsih
> depend on SCSI. What do you think?

Sounds good. (And mptscsi should depend on mptbase of course)

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