From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: clarification and trivial correction to Kconfig text Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:05:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4C027EA4.5050900@kernel.org> References: <4C010AA8.8070004@kernel.org> <4C0135BF.1010505@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <4C0225D1.90205@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Richter Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 Acked-by: Tejun Heo Thanks. -- tejun