Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752001AbYHIJvO (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:51:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750965AbYHIJu6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:50:58 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:47593 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750931AbYHIJu5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:50:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:33:31 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Grant Coady , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig Message-ID: <20080809103331.1d475d5c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20080808172629.232bed01@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 18 > I would also ask for PATA and for SATA first: > > > > [*] PATA support > > [*] SATA support > > that was sort my original thought, but i don't know enough about ATA > fundamentals to know if it makes sense for these to be independently > selectable. Alas it does not or we would have done so. A lot of the chips have things like 'two SATA one PATA' and some of them have SATA and PATA variants of the same chip. Then we have generic drivers like ata_generic which really don't care if its SATA or PATA .. -- 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/