Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932320AbVJDC7l (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 22:59:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932335AbVJDC7k (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 22:59:40 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:52657 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932320AbVJDC7k (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 22:59:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:59:38 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Nico Schottelius Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.13.2 - menuconfig: raid support wrong place? Message-Id: <20051003195938.779fa982.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20051003083537.GB1746@schottelius.org> References: <20051003083537.GB1746@schottelius.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1548 Lines: 42 On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:35:37 +0200 Nico Schottelius wrote: > Hello! > > Is it wanted, that some hardware raids are listed below > "Block devices" and not IDE or SCSI support? > > And will SATA devices in general stay below SCSI? > > Both things aren't really intuitive to find and I would expect > the raid drivers below IDE or SCSI and I was searching for SATA > not below SCSI some times. Yeah, we sometimes tend to put drivers in a menu depending on what technology or interfaces they use. E.g., some RAID drivers are under Block Devices because they are implemented as block devices. That's probably not the best place for them from a user perspective, but instead of putting them under IDE or SCSI support, I would rather see them merged with the Multi-device support menu (RAID and LVM), which appears to be mostly for infrastructure, not for device drivers, but there could be a separate section of it for device drivers IMO. SATA (currently) uses SCSI software interfaces, so it lives in the SCSI menus. Yes, that might not make sense to some people. Maybe a separate menu for SATA would make sense... Want to propose some changes via patches? I have no idea how well accepted they might be. --- ~Randy You can't do anything without having to do something else first. -- Belefant's Law - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/