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SubjectRe: [PATCH UPDATED][2] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA
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
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