From: Patrick Ringl <patrick_@freenet.de>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED][2] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:31:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FC8847.2060209@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703180110.51303.bzolnier@gmail.com>
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 >:)
--- 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 01:23:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -103,8 +103,10 @@
---help---
There are two drivers for Serial ATA controllers.
- The main driver, "libata", exists inside the SCSI subsystem
- and supports most modern SATA controllers.
+ The main driver, "libata", uses the SCSI subsystem
+ and supports most modern SATA controllers. In order to use it
+ you may take a look at "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA
+ (experimental) drivers".
The IDE driver (which you are currently configuring) supports
a few first-generation SATA controllers.
---
> Thanks,
> Bart
>
>
regards,
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-18 0:31 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 ` Patrick Ringl [this message]
2007-03-23 21:50 ` [PATCH UPDATED][2] " Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-03-24 16:06 ` Patrick Ringl
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