Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754816AbXIHQwy (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:52:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753817AbXIHQwq (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:52:46 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:51621 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753610AbXIHQwp (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:52:45 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig To: Al Boldi , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:52:35 +0200 References: <90ZEn-1YU-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <918Rh-7Or-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <919aD-8ua-7@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+S0aedXDSQiZPZzhY5xXAlUQ/VERr5v599P/l NbaHRBtvO5Uq1qLyU28EqdW6y21mHBvX0MwWWuPHpfeZksESED DdGUozxeLxsFbKOnvqzgQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2087 Lines: 44 Al Boldi wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. >> >> Which is wrong >> >> Nakked-by: Alan Cox >> >> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer >> what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding libata under SCSI will >> cause even more confusion than it cures > > That's easy to fix: just change the SCSI heading to include a libata hint. I think you're fixing the wrong problem. The real problem is hiding devices attached to some controlers between one kind of the controllers. This has been correct whern they were bus- specific, but since they are now shared by three busses, they should get their own menu called "(S)ATA/USB/SCSI attached devices" - or whatever a native speaker would suggest. Besides that, if I imagine being a semi-novice and searching for IDE support, I would have a hard time finding the IDE menu, and asuming PATA to be non-experimental one day, I'd have a hard time deciding which of the drivers to use. Maybe the SATA-drivers should be put above the old PATA menu, amd maybe both of the titles should include "(E)IDE"? BTW: For CONFIG_ATA, you can replace "(!M32R && !M68K || BROKEN) && (!SUN4 || BROKEN)" with "(!M32R && !M68K && !SUN4 || BROKEN)" BTW2: I think that menu needs very much reordering. "Block devices" should be renamed to "Other block devices", AGP support should belong into graphics support, and many other things I don't even know need to be pushed around. Even ordering by name would be better than the current situation! But it should be done by someone knowing these devices, I could only do a part. -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 14. Any more trouble from you and your account gets moved to the 750 Fri?, Spammer: NxeCk-fw6@5.7eggert.dyndns.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/