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Message-ID: <tkrat.d922469e152fe0f3@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:01:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@...eleye.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> --- Applicable to 2.6.23-rc6 and to scsi-misc. drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.23-rc6/drivers/scsi/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc6.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6.23-rc6/drivers/scsi/Kconfig @@ -12,23 +12,31 @@ config SCSI depends on BLOCK select SCSI_DMA if HAS_DMA ---help--- - If you want to use a SCSI hard disk, SCSI tape drive, SCSI CD-ROM or - any other SCSI device under Linux, say Y and make sure that you know - the name of your SCSI host adapter (the card inside your computer - that "speaks" the SCSI protocol, also called SCSI controller), - because you will be asked for it. - - You also need to say Y here if you have a device which speaks - the SCSI protocol. Examples of this include the parallel port - version of the IOMEGA ZIP drive, USB storage devices, Fibre - Channel, FireWire storage and the IDE-SCSI emulation driver. + This option enables core support for SCSI protocols. + You need it + - for classic parallel SCSI hardware, + - for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, + or iSCSI, + - for non-SCSI hardware which speaks SCSI protocols, such as USB + storage devices or the parallel port version of Iomega Zip drive, + - for non-SCSI hardware whose drivers translate from and to SCSI + protocols, like the IDE-SCSI emulation driver and most notably + for all SATA drivers. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read <file:Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt>. The module will be called scsi_mod. However, do not compile this as a module if your root file system - (the one containing the directory /) is located on a SCSI device. + (the one containing the directory /) is located on a SCSI device + or on a device whose driver represents it as SCSI device, as + indicated above. Choose Y in this case, or set up an initrd. + + Subsequent options in this menu enable specific SCSI command set + support for harddisks, CD/DVD-ROM/R/W, tapes etc.. This menu also + presents options for specific SCSI controllers, while options for + some other SCSI transports and all non-SCSI controllers are located + in other menus (SATA, USB, FireWire etc.). config SCSI_DMA bool @@ -120,7 +128,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SR tristate "SCSI CDROM support" depends on SCSI ---help--- - If you want to use a SCSI or FireWire CD-ROM under Linux, + If you want to use a SCSI, SATA, USB or FireWire CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO and the CDROM-HOWTO at <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Also make sure to say Y or M to "ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system support" later. -- 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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