From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753434AbXCWXrb (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:47:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753436AbXCWXrb (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:47:31 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:22713 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753434AbXCWXra (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:47:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=nALfUjOF8Pytn/uBbbsCu1B0pOsOkz5U9g23ByEO73Ku4tvQ8p6jYk9DjmRsIJTGQuXwhCc6eLOx++QqC4fOCexHvbTBKyhS5260lAmDp+bQQ2tT7Nuh5itKNsRCbhUqqnZiK4K402N+SSXIiEVMM1cdWupsMEkvTRxMVqi+hj4= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Patrick Ringl Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED][2] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:50:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org References: <45FC763B.1010708@freenet.de> <200703180110.51303.bzolnier@gmail.com> <45FC8847.2060209@freenet.de> In-Reply-To: <45FC8847.2060209@freenet.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703232250.18937.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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