From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
James Bottomley <james.bottomley@steeleye.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:46:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EE933D.60207@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64N.0709171217350.17606@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> SCSI is a generic peripheral bus
No, not anymore. http://www.t10.org/scsi-3.htm
> (recall the expansion of the acronym).
The expansion of the acronym doesn't fit anymore to what SCSI is today,
or even to what it became already circa 10 years ago.
> Even though probably the most common, storage is one of its applications
> only (think scanners for an immediately obvious other one). I find
> describing CONFIG_SCSI as "storage support" misleading and inappropriate.
Right. I wrote that in lack of better words, but at least I added "SCSI
commands" in parentheses. Something like "SCSI I/O - core and command
sets" would much better describe what it is, but it would put "SCSI"
first again and thus wouldn't reflect that Linux' SCSI core and
highlevel is in broader use than just for actual SCSI hardware... Of
course there is no way around the issue that Linux' SCSI core's and
highlevel's role cannot be characterized in 3...6 words only, but there
should be a way to point out its general importance.
> Referring to your example it is like calling generic networking (i.e.
> CONFIG_NET) "Ethernet support".
Wrong comparison.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-09-08 16:07 ` sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 16:50 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-08 16:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-08 18:13 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 18:30 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-08 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-08 19:32 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-09 21:00 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-09 21:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-09 21:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-09 21:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-09 21:39 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-10 6:38 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-10 12:43 ` Rene Herman
2007-09-11 20:16 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-09-12 22:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 14:54 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 15:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 15:37 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:01 ` [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 18:02 ` [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 18:04 ` [PATCH] SCSI: trailing whitespace in Kconfig Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 19:00 ` [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 19:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 20:01 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 11:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 12:24 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 12:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 13:20 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 13:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 14:11 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 14:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 15:27 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 15:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 16:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 16:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-15 19:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-15 20:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-16 20:12 ` Greg KH
2007-09-15 16:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-17 11:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-17 14:46 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-09-14 20:20 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 21:22 ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 18:54 ` [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 20:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 20:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 21:06 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 21:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-14 21:14 ` [PATCH update] " Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 22:02 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 6:16 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 10:52 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 12:30 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 12:53 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-15 12:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-15 13:19 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-14 16:16 ` sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig Adrian Bunk
2007-09-14 16:50 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 8:04 ` Paul Rolland
2007-09-15 8:25 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-15 13:00 ` Paul Rolland
2007-09-15 18:23 ` david
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