Re: [PATCH] MPT: make all Fusion MPT sub-choices singly selectable

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sat Nov 25 2006 - 15:12:35 EST


On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:34:55 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
> Put all of the Fusion MPT sub-choices under a single top-level
> config entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Is there any reason that the sub-choices for Fusion MPT can't be
> selected or deselected en masse, the way it's done for, say, MTD
> support and other components?
>
> There are other locations where this simplification could be used
> but I thought I'd wait for some feedback on this example first.

It's an improvement over what is there now.

Here's another option. What do you think of it?

---

Put all of the Fusion MPT sub-choices under a single top-level
config entry.

---

Is there any reason that the sub-choices for Fusion MPT can't be
selected or deselected en masse, the way it's done for, say, MTD
support and other components?

There are other locations where this simplification could be used
but I thought I'd wait for some feedback on this example first.

---
drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig | 13 ++++---------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.19-rc6-git8.orig/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-git8/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@

-menu "Fusion MPT device support"
+menuconfig FUSION
+ bool "Fusion MPT device support"

-config FUSION
- bool
- default n
+if FUSION

config FUSION_SPI
tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- select FUSION
select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
---help---
SCSI HOST support for a parallel SCSI host adapters.
@@ -23,7 +21,6 @@ config FUSION_SPI
config FUSION_FC
tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for FC"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- select FUSION
select SCSI_FC_ATTRS
---help---
SCSI HOST support for a Fiber Channel host adapters.
@@ -40,7 +37,6 @@ config FUSION_FC
config FUSION_SAS
tristate "Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SAS"
depends on PCI && SCSI
- select FUSION
select SCSI_SAS_ATTRS
---help---
SCSI HOST support for a SAS host adapters.
@@ -54,7 +50,6 @@ config FUSION_SAS

config FUSION_MAX_SGE
int "Maximum number of scatter gather entries (16 - 128)"
- depends on FUSION
default "128"
range 16 128
help
@@ -100,4 +95,4 @@ config FUSION_LAN

If unsure whether you really want or need this, say N.

-endmenu
+endif
-
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