sg (scsi generic) module missing

[Willem Riede]

On 2004.05.02 20:08, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 23:26, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:32:43PM -0400, Willem Riede wrote:
> > > FC2T3 is still missing the ide-scsi module! And filing a bug doesn't work :-(
> > > I've had one in bugzilla since February 28, and no reaction whatsoever from
> > > the Red Hat kernel packagers...
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117095
> > > 
> > > Why not compile ide-scsi? Why inconvenience owners of tape drives that need it?
> > 
> > And IDE multi-changers
> > 
> > > Put it in unsupported for all I care, but compile it, _please_.
> > 
> > Unfortunately Arjan and Dave are out of range of my torture kit so all I
> > can do is bitch at them as well (and if need be release rival kernel rpms
> > which would be a pita to have to do)
> 
> Odd. I thought we had come to a compromise on this which went along
> the lines of..
> 
> 	if device is an IDE CD drive
> 		print "use /dev/hd? directly"
> 		abort
> 	else
> 		passthrough to usual ide-scsi foo.

That is consistent with what I proposed both on linux-kernel/scsi and in my 
bugzilla entry. But as ide-scsi is not compiled, that logic is moot...

[root at fallguy root]# grep BLK_DEV_IDESCSI /usr/src/l*/configs/*
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.327/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i586.config:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.327/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i586-smp.config:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.327/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.327/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686-smp.config:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set

Regards, Willem Riede.