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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: revising sys/conf/files* dependencies
References: <20130305083817.GD13187@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:48:20 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20130305083817.GD13187@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> (Luigi Rizzo's
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Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> writes:
> In all these cases, if you forget the scbus or pci in the kernel
> config, the driver is not compiled in but you only detect it at
> compile time. I'd rather be notified of the error at kernel link time.

I would rather be notified by config(8):

"iscsi_initiator requires scbus, please edit your kernel configuration
and re-run config(8)"

and perhaps a command-line option that makes it automatically resolve
dependencies instead of complaining about them.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no