Re: [2.6 patch] give SATA its' own menu

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:11:46AM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:15:54AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> > 
> > for an average user it's non-obvious to search for SATA support under 
> > SCSI. The patch below moves SATA suport out of SCSI and gives it an own 
> > menu below SCSI.
> 
> Will users know that they have to enable SCSI disk & cdrom support to get
> it really to work?

I don't know the internals of the SATA driver, but this is unchanged 
from the current dependencies.

If this is required, I can send a patch that adds disk an cdrom options 
to SATA and select's the appropriate SCSI options.

> 								Petr
>  
> > +config SCSI_SATA
> > +	bool "Serial ATA (SATA) support"
> > +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> > +	select SCSI
> > +	help
> > +	  This driver family supports Serial ATA host controllers
> > +	  and devices.
> > +
> > +	  If unsure, say N.

cu
Adrian

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