Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751194AbXIHH11 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751378AbXIHH1T (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:27:19 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:46554 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344AbXIHH1T (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:27:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:27:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Krzysztof Halasa cc: Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070907124800.GP16806@vanheusden.com> <20070907145845.GQ16806@vanheusden.com> 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: 925 Lines: 25 On Sep 8 2007 01:02, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Sep 7 2007 21:38, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >>> Ok, but that's not the most common situaties. What I'm suggesting is a >>> warning or a please note popup. Not neccessarily an error or refusing to >>> continue thing. >> >>What IMHO makes sense is changing all references to SCSI CDROM, >>SCSI DISK etc. to just CDROM, DISK, and changing SCSI (menu) to >>something like MASS STORAGE. > >There is still too much SCSI in it IMO :-) And to explain that point: SCSI device name inquiry is limited to 16 bytes. That may be a limitation of SCSI (as in: the protocol), but the SCSI *subsystem* should not impose such a tight limit. 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/