From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: AHCI finds disks; no /dev/sd inodes bound? Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:38:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20080110003806.GD18480@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1199899766.3493.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080109174945.GB15346@one.firstfloor.org> <4785138A.4000809@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <4785304A.60109@gmail.com> <20080109205850.GU16309@parisc-linux.org> <47853FA7.9050506@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20080109222308.GE15612@one.firstfloor.org> <478552DF.1050203@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51821 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754626AbYAJAfe (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:35:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <478552DF.1050203@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Richter Cc: Andi Kleen , Matthew Wilcox , Jon Watte , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:03:59AM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:41:59PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > >> However, this further obfuscates the fact that libata uses Linux' SCSI > >> midlayer and highlevel. Which is a bad thing. For example, there are > > > > People are not interested in how libata is implemented internally. > > They just want their SATA interfaces to work. > > > > Kconfig is also not an educational facility or high level > > design description of the code, but a pragmatic tool to get the job > > done. > > I did not talk about education or design decription. I did talk about > appropriately showing what the Kconfig options do. That's "high level design description" -Andi