Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:12:03 +0100 | | From | Jens Axboe <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] SATA in its own config menu |
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On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:28PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> > > > > Put SATA into its own menu. Reason: using SCSI is an > > implementation detail that users need not know about. > > > > Enabling SATA selects SCSI since SATA uses SCSI as a function > > library supplier. It also enables BLK_DEV_SD since that is > > what SATA drives look like in Linux. > > we'll soon support (or already do?) support sata atapi, when this > won't be true anymore. Please never select scsi upper drivers from > lower drivers, this independence is the whole point of the layered > architecture.
It's already possible, and besides you could be using sg with your SATA devices stand-alone if you so wanted. So this selection is indeed a nonsensical one, it's an invalid dependency.
-- Jens Axboe
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