From: Adrian Bunk SCSI=m must disallow static drivers. The problem is that all the SATA drivers depend on SCSI_SATA. With SCSI=m and SCSI_SATA=y this allows the static enabling of the SATA drivers with unwanted effects, e.g.: - SCSI=m, SCSI_SATA=y, SCSI_ATA_ADMA=y -> SCSI_ATA_ADMA is built statically but scsi/built-in.o is not linked into the kernel - SCSI=m, SCSI_SATA=y, SCSI_ATA_ADMA=y, SCSI_SATA_AHCI=m -> SCSI_ATA_ADMA and libata are built statically but scsi/built-in.o is not linked into the kernel, SCSI_SATA_AHCI is built modular (unresolved symbols due to missing libata) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/Kconfig~scsi_sata-has-to-be-a-tristate drivers/scsi/Kconfig --- devel/drivers/scsi/Kconfig~scsi_sata-has-to-be-a-tristate 2005-07-26 00:37:43.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2005-07-26 00:37:43.000000000 -0700 @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ config SCSI_IN2000 source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid" config SCSI_SATA - bool "Serial ATA (SATA) support" + tristate "Serial ATA (SATA) support" depends on SCSI help This driver family supports Serial ATA host controllers _