Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Stefan Richter
2007-09-08T07:56:53Z

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sep 8 2007 09:05, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> config ATA_SD
>> tristate "SATA/PATA HDD support (via SCSI disk support)"
>> depends on ATA
>> select BLK_DEV_SD
>> help
>> 'SCSI disk support' is required to access SATA HDDs. It is
[...]
>> You can say Y or M here to select SCSI disk support, or you
>> can do so in the 'SCSI device support' section.
[...]
> And what uses ATA_SD, or is the user supposed to manually enable it?

It is merely there to produce the prompt which people asked for.
CONFIG_ATA_SD (or CONFIG_ATA_BLK_DEV_SD or whatever) won't turn up in
any Makefile or source code.

Note, I'm not fond of 'select' nor of dummy Kconfig variables. Plus I
can personally live very well with the current solution (sd_mod et al
are mentioned in the help text at CONFIG_ATA). That's why I posted only
the example instead of a complete patch.
--
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-=== =--= -=---