Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Goswin von Brederlow
2007-09-14T16:42:36Z

Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> writes:

> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200 Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly
>>> give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller
>>> while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected?
>>>
>>
>> I know that it's difficult to get people to read docs & help text,
>> and maybe it is needed in more places, but CONFIG_ATA (SATA/PATA)
>> help text says:
>>
>> NOTE: ATA enables basic SCSI support; *however*,
>> 'SCSI disk support', 'SCSI tape support', or
>> 'SCSI CDROM support' may also be needed,
>> depending on your hardware configuration.

Could one duplicate the configure options for scsi disk/tape/cdrom at
that place? The text should then probably read SCSI/SATA disk support
in both places.

MfG
Goswin