Comment # 19 on bug 1036463 from Takashi Iwai

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #18)
> (In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #17)
> > The kernel configs do differ between openSUSE and SUSE on purpose, and I'm
> > not sure whether we would go with CONFIG_SCSI=y just only for this.
> 
> You meant CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y, didn't you ?

Yes, but this requires CONFIG_SCSI=y as well due to the dependency.
On TW kernel, CONFIG_SCSI is already y, but on SLE, it's been m.

> I cannot see a reason why TW and SLE should differ on that matter.

Because the requirements are different.

CONFIG_SCSI=y is set on openSUSE kernels *just* for a faster boot in many years
ago.  Then we kept the config as is.  Meanwhile SLE didn't care the faster boot
so much but rather be conservative, thus it's kept as module.

> It may be too risky to change SLE12 kernels that's the reason why I was
> suggesting to do the change for SLE15 and later.

Sure, (1) is definitely no-go for SLE12.  The question is only about TW /
SLE15.