From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, jgarzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
jejb <james.bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] SATA in its own config menu
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:13:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116121328.GA12871@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060115135728.7b13996d.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:28PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
>
> Put SATA into its own menu. Reason: using SCSI is an
> implementation detail that users need not know about.
>
> Enabling SATA selects SCSI since SATA uses SCSI as a function
> library supplier. It also enables BLK_DEV_SD since that is
> what SATA drives look like in Linux.
we'll soon support (or already do?) support sata atapi, when this
won't be true anymore. Please never select scsi upper drivers from
lower drivers, this independence is the whole point of the layered
architecture.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-15 21:57 [PATCH/RFC] SATA in its own config menu Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-16 12:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-16 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-01-16 14:12 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-17 16:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-17 16:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-16 14:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-17 4:59 ` Randy.Dunlap
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