On Sunday 18 March 2007, Patrick Ringl wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sunday 18 March 2007, Patrick Ringl wrote: > >> Hello, > > > > Hi, > > > >> since especially Serial ATA has it's own menu point now, I guess we can > >> change the description of the deprecated SATA driver as well, since the > >> new libATA subsystem is not configured through a SCSI low-level driver > >> anymore, but has it's own menu point. > >> > >> The following patch is against 2.6.21-rc4: > >> > >> --- linux-2.6.20.old/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2007-03-18 00:05:11.000000000 > >> +0100 > >> +++ linux-2.6.20/drivers/ide/Kconfig 2007-03-18 00:09:47.000000000 > >> +0100 > >> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ > >> ---help--- > >> There are two drivers for Serial ATA controllers. > >> > >> - The main driver, "libata", exists inside the SCSI subsystem > >> + The main driver, "libata", exists inside the ATA subsystem > > > > Strictly speaking libata is not a separate subsystem (it still uses SCSI > > subsystem) and "ATA subsystem" may be misleading, since we now have: > > > > * "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" menu for drivers/ide > > > > * "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers" menu for > > libata > > > > What about replacing "exists inside" into "uses" and adding info about > > the new menu instead? > Well, that's even a better idea :-) I wasn't that sure about what to do > .. it's just that it could be misleading since the new (s/p)ata drivers > are not living in the scsi low-level subsystem anymore, but got their > own menu point. > > Here's a different patch >:)
applied [ The patch was whitespace damaged and didn't apply et all so I had to manually change the Kconfig to merge your change. ] Thanks, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
