Re: [PATCH 2.5.62]: 2/3: Make SCSI low-level drivers also a seperate,

[Thomas Molina]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:02:10PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> > > so you can disable all SCSI lowlevel drivers at once.
> > 
> > Why? just disable CONFIG_SCSI instead of adding an artifical option
> 
> Isn't that going to disable all of SCSI? I think the intention may be to
> drop hardware drivers and just use ide-scsi, although I might be
> misreading the original intent.
> 
> There are a fair number of tape/CD/DVD devices out there which you might
> run SCSI. I many cases will run SCSI or not at all.

I thought the intent was to make it unnecessary to run ide-scsi at all.  
There was talk about it awhile back on the list.  I've been burning CDs 
using ide cdrom support for several kernel revisions now.