Re: [PATCH update 2] SCSI: explain the hidden scsi_wait_scanKconfig variable

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jun 22 2009 - 04:56:20 EST


On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:03:23 +0200 (CEST)
Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> People keep sending patches to expose CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN as a tunable
> item. These patches aren't accepted upstream, so let's stop the ongoing
> irritation of people due to the unconditionally installed module and its
> Kconfig symbol.

How about the other possibility. People keepmaking it tunable because it
makes sense for it to be tunable. Far better IMHO to make it tunable "if
EMBEDDED"

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