From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH] ata: Kconfig: Elaborate that SFF is meant for legacy and PATA stuff
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:32:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502E8011.20701@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344808456.4275.66.camel@mattotaupa>
On 08/12/2012 05:54 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:43:42 +0200
>
> Building Linux for an ASUS Eee PC 701 4G with
>
> ata2.00: CFA: SILICONMOTION SM223AC, , max UDMA/66
> ata2.00: 7815024 sectors, multi 0: LBA
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
> scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SILICONMOTION SM n/a PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 7815024 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.72 GiB)
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> sda: sda1
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
>
> I followed the advice to not use the deprecated old PATA subsystem
>
> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED) --->
>
> and use the ATA subsystem instead.
>
> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers --->
>
> Unfortunately I needed several tries to find out, that I needed the SFF
> menu I had not selected before because I had never heard that term
> before. I think it would have helped me, to have PATA or legacy IDE in
> that item’s name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> If you can improve the commit summary, I would be thankful.
>
> drivers/ata/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/Kconfig b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
> index 2be8ef1..27cecd3 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ config SATA_SIL24
> If unsure, say N.
>
> config ATA_SFF
> - bool "ATA SFF support"
> + bool "ATA SFF support (for legacy IDE and PATA)"
> default y
> help
> This option adds support for ATA controllers with SFF
applied
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2012-08-12 21:54 PATCH] ata: Kconfig: Elaborate that SFF is meant for legacy and PATA stuff Paul Menzel
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