From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: [PATCH] ide/Kconfig: mark ide-scsi as deprecated Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:11:44 +0200 Message-ID: <200808192111.45351.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.186]:51400 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753561AbYHSTOn (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:14:43 -0400 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w8so107324mue.1 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark ide-scsi as deprecated and remove stale/bogus documentation. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- drivers/ide/Kconfig | 16 +--------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/ide/Kconfig =================================================================== --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY module will be called ide-floppy. config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI - tristate "SCSI emulation support" + tristate "SCSI emulation support (DEPRECATED)" depends on SCSI select IDE_ATAPI ---help--- @@ -200,20 +200,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native ATAPI driver. - This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native - driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD drive); - you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI - device driver. In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support" - and "SCSI generic support", below. You must then provide the kernel - command line "hdx=ide-scsi" (try "man bootparam" or see the - documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to - pass options to the kernel at boot time) for devices if you want the - native EIDE sub-drivers to skip over the native support, so that - this SCSI emulation can be used instead. - - Note that this option does NOT allow you to attach SCSI devices to a - box that doesn't have a SCSI host adapter installed. - If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled into the kernel, the native support will be used.