Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754663AbXIHSXS (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754083AbXIHSXJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:23:09 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:40010 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754135AbXIHSXI (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:23:08 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46E2E87E.3060208@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:22:54 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070807 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 7eggert@gmx.de CC: Al Boldi , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig References: <90ZEn-1YU-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <918Rh-7Or-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <919aD-8ua-7@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1398 Lines: 29 Bodo Eggert wrote: > 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. A side note: SCSI is not a bus. It is an architecture and a set of implementation standards; including command set standards, transport protocol standards and interconnect standards for a whole lot of different applications, transports, and interconnects, and not all of the latter are actual buses. The oldest of SCSI interconnects, SCSI Parallel Interconnect alias SPI, is often mistaken for all of SCSI even though its role is diminishing. There is much more: http://www.t10.org/scsi-3.htm You are right though that Linux' SCSI command set drivers and SCSI core are used for non-SCSI transports too, and this is not very well reflected by the configuration menu layout. (But is there an ideal menu layout? I'm sure there isn't.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--= -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/