linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH UPDATED][2] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA

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Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:50:18 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Patrick Ringl <patrick_@...enet.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED][2] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerning SATA


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
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