Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759979AbXENULu (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 16:11:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759742AbXENULd (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 16:11:33 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:41733 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759647AbXENULb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 16:11:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:06:04 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Alan Cox cc: James Bottomley , Simon Arlott , "Robert P. J. Day" , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module? In-Reply-To: <20070514194614.4f00655d@the-village.bc.nu> Message-ID: References: <20070513160608.GA29024@redhat.com> <1179072655.3723.42.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1179073670.3723.48.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <46474E1A.6080904@simon.arlott.org.uk> <1179078537.3723.53.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070514194614.4f00655d@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 29 On May 14 2007 19:46, Alan Cox wrote: >> On May 13 2007 12:48, James Bottomley wrote: >> > >> >> Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it? >> >That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list. >> >libata-pata does require SCSI ... >> >> And in the long run, that SCSI parts which are actually used by ATA >> should be factored out so that SCSI really is SCSI again, and not >> "Common layer for SCSI, SATA and PATA" or so. > >The common layer for the queueing is one thing, but the ATAPI devices >(CD-ROM etc) are SCSI commands over an ATA bus. A subset of SCSI commands >badly over an ATA bus but SCSI commands nevertheless - so they have the >same basic dependancies as USB storage does. Hm yes of course, but harddisks themselves do not normally need ATAPI; so it would be cool to be capable of throwing it out for PATA-and-no-CDROM boxes. Jan -- - 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/