Hi there!
This was already discussed in May: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/13/75
without any valuable results.
I don't want to have the scsi_wait_scan.ko around but still need
SCSI for usb disks and module support for driver development.
Otherwise, I am working with a monolithic kernel on embedded machines.
The attached patch is another try to at least allow to get
rid of this module.
Feedback is welcome.
Regards,
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Clemens Koller
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Allow to disable to build the scsi_wait_scan.ko module if not needed.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
index a6676be..1dc452d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -248,10 +248,19 @@ config SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
or async on the kernel's command line.
config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
- tristate
+ tristate "create module which waits for SCSI scanning to finish"
default m
depends on SCSI
depends on MODULES
+ help
+ When this module is loaded, it will do nothing else than wait for
+ SCSI low-level drivers to finish asynchronous scanning for devices.
+ This module will be called scsi_wait_scan.
+
+ It's default and safe to create this module even if it's not used
+ in your distro's init scripts. You can override this if you are
+ really sure you don't need or want it. It does not make sense to
+ compile this into the kernel with Y.
menu "SCSI Transports"
depends on SCSI
