linux-kernel - Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

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Message-Id: <E1IU3Xv-0000d9-K0@be1.lrz>
Date:	Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:52:35 +0200
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:

>> > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi.
>>
>> Which is wrong
>>
>> Nakked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
>>
>> 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.
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