Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750734AbWAPMJD (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:09:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750735AbWAPMJD (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:09:03 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:45244 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbWAPMJB (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:09:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:08:56 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "Randy.Dunlap" cc: lkml , jgarzik , jejb Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] SATA in its own config menu In-Reply-To: <20060115135728.7b13996d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Message-ID: References: <20060115135728.7b13996d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 41 >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. Good idea. >--- /dev/null >+++ linux-2615-g10/drivers/scsi/Kconfig.sata >@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ >+menu "Serial ATA (SATA) device support" >+ >+config SCSI_SATA >+ tristate "Serial ATA (SATA) support" >+ select SCSI >+ select BLK_DEV_SD >+ help >+ This driver family supports Serial ATA host controllers >+ and devices. >+ >+ If unsure, say N. I'd prefer menuconfig SCSI_SATA tristate "Serial ATA (SATA) suport" select SCSI... Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ | jengelh's site, http://jengelh.hopto.org/ - 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/