On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 02:18:58PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > Reogranize USB Kconfig Menu, and move USB_GADGET out into the Device Driver > > Menu. This helps the USB Kconfig Menu to be more logical/usable. > > > > Cc: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Along those lines, sure ... but this particular patch can't quite > be the answer. For one thing, it rather critially needs the appended, > else it won't work on ARM. (And quite a lot of the ARM platforms > need the gadget stack!!) > > There are ISTR a few other platforms which, for reasons unknown to > me, don't source drivers/Kconfig but recreate portions of it on > their own ... that's not something that this patch should change.
$ find . -name Kconfig\* | xargs grep drivers/usb/Kconfig ./arch/arm/Kconfig:source "drivers/usb/Kconfig" ./arch/cris/Kconfig:source "drivers/usb/Kconfig" ./arch/h8300/Kconfig:source "drivers/usb/Kconfig" ./arch/v850/Kconfig:source "drivers/usb/Kconfig" ./drivers/Kconfig:source "drivers/usb/Kconfig" $ > Also, looking at this in xconfig shows some oddness. That "core" > submenu holds stuff that would logically be part of the toplevel > menu for host side USB. While that toplevel menu has the USS720 > driver, which seems more like a "miscellany" thing... > > The comment about SCSI shouldn't show when SCSI is defined; and > the comment aboue "SCSI disk support" belongs with the mass storage > menu, not at the top level. The way that the mass storage menu > is presented also hides the fact that you can get fully functional > mass storage support without checking *any* of the drivers there, > since the core already handles standard devices. >... The SCSI dependency should be handled through select - there's no reason for bothering the kconfig user wih such implementation details. > - Dave >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/