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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: clarification and trivial correction to Kconfig text
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:05:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C027EA4.5050900@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.acb772e71ffffd6e@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

On 05/30/2010 04:00 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Change the text of the ATA_BMDMA prompt to indicate that it lets one access a class of
> device drivers (rather than only add a certain feature to libata).  The divisions of
> the "ATA SFF support" menu now read
>   - SFF controllers with custom DMA interface,
>   - SFF controllers with bus master DMA  (was: "ATA BMDMA support"),
>       - SATA SFF controllers with BMDMA,
>       - PATA SFF controllers with BMDMA,
>   - PIO-only SFF controllers.
> This hopefully helps convince users of "make oldconfig" to follow the
> recommendation to switch that option on.
> 
> Also let the help text of this prompt say more precisely what it is about:  It adds a
> little bit of support code to libata that is required by many but not all SFF drivers.
> This option alone does not add support of respective controllers though; according
> drivers are chosen at subsequent dependent Kconfig prompts. --- And fix a typo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-30 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-29 10:47 [PATCH] libata-sff: trivial corrections to Kconfig help text Stefan Richter
2010-05-29 12:38 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-29 15:41   ` Stefan Richter
2010-05-30  8:46     ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-30 14:00       ` [PATCH] libata-sff: clarification and trivial correction to Kconfig text Stefan Richter
2010-05-30 15:05         ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-06-02 17:50 ` [PATCH] libata-sff: trivial corrections to Kconfig help text Jeff Garzik

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