From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:13:21 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808081911080.3254@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sktfw1v5.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Grant Coady <grant_lkml@dodo.com.au> writes:
>
> > ¦ ¦ --- Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA) drivers ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ <*> AHCI SATA support ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ [*] ATA ACPI Support ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ [ ] SATA Port Multiplier support ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ < > Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ [*] ATA SFF support ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ *** Serial ATA drivers *** ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ < > Initio 162x SATA support ¦ ¦
> > ¦ ¦ < > Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support ¦ ¦
>
> As noted, it's both PATA and SATA. People searching for PATA-only
> PIIX support may have trouble locating it under SATA.
>
> Why not remove ATA SFF support visual option (or leave it for
> optional off-tree drivers only, if it makes sense) and SELECT it
> when any driver using it is selected? I'm not sure that users know
> they need SFF, or what's that.
>
> I think I would also ask for PATA and for SATA first:
>
> [*] PATA support
> [*] SATA support
that was sort my original thought, but i don't know enough about ATA
fundamentals to know if it makes sense for these to be independently
selectable. that's why i nobly bailed and left it for someone else to
do the actual work. :-)
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-08 16:32 worth separating serial from parallel ATA kernel options? Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-08 16:26 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-08 16:53 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-08 22:34 ` [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig Grant Coady
2008-08-08 22:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-08-08 23:13 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2008-08-09 9:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-09 10:39 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-09 12:04 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-08-09 12:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-09 12:36 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-09 13:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-09 19:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-08-09 20:59 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-10 1:07 ` [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig try2 Grant Coady
2008-08-10 7:10 ` [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig try3 Grant Coady
2008-08-10 7:32 ` Grant Coady
2008-08-10 8:30 ` [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig try4 Grant Coady
2008-08-10 9:27 ` Grant Coady
2008-08-10 11:57 ` Oliver Pinter
2008-08-10 23:29 ` Grant Coady
2008-08-09 22:40 ` [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig Oliver Pinter
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