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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Ringl <patrick_@freenet.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED][2] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:50:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703232250.18937.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FC8847.2060209@freenet.de>


On Sunday 18 March 2007, Patrick Ringl wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> > On Sunday 18 March 2007, Patrick Ringl wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> since especially Serial ATA has it's own menu point now, I guess we can 
> >> change the description of the deprecated SATA driver as well, since the 
> >> new libATA subsystem is not configured through a SCSI low-level driver 
> >> anymore, but has it's own menu point.
> >>
> >> The following patch is against 2.6.21-rc4:
> >>
> >> --- linux-2.6.20.old/drivers/ide/Kconfig	2007-03-18 00:05:11.000000000 +0100
> >> +++ linux-2.6.20/drivers/ide/Kconfig	2007-03-18 00:09:47.000000000 +0100
> >> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
> >>   	---help---
> >>   	  There are two drivers for Serial ATA controllers.
> >>
> >> -	  The main driver, "libata", exists inside the SCSI subsystem
> >> +	  The main driver, "libata", exists inside the ATA subsystem
> >
> > Strictly speaking libata is not a separate subsystem (it still uses SCSI
> > subsystem) and "ATA subsystem" may be misleading, since we now have:
> >
> > * "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" menu for drivers/ide
> >
> > * "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers" menu for libata
> >
> > What about replacing "exists inside" into "uses" and adding info about
> > the new menu instead?
> Well, that's even a better idea :-) I wasn't that sure about what to do 
> .. it's just that it could be misleading since the new (s/p)ata drivers 
> are not living in the scsi low-level subsystem anymore, but got their 
> own menu point.
> 
> Here's a different patch >:)

applied

[ The patch was whitespace damaged and didn't apply et all
  so I had to manually change the Kconfig to merge your change. ]

Thanks,
Bart

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-17 23:14 [PATCH UPDATED] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA Patrick Ringl
2007-03-18  0:10 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-03-18  0:31   ` [PATCH UPDATED][2] " Patrick Ringl
2007-03-23 21:50     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2007-03-24 16:06       ` Patrick Ringl

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