linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI core's widespread usage

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Message-Id: <20070914134236Q.tomof@acm.org>
Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:53:55 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@....org>
To:	stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de
Cc:	tomof@....org, lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca,
	james.bottomley@...eleye.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, andi@...stfloor.org, folkert@...heusden.com,
	bunk@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSI
 core's widespread usage

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:30:10 +0200
Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:16:03 +0200
> > Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> >> Or would be "for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel,
> >> FireWire storage, iSCSI, SAS, and more," be OK?
> > 
> > scsi-ml has SPI, FC, iSCSI, SAS, and SRP transport classes (SRP is in
> > scsi-misc now). It's a bit strange to omit only SRP, I think. But I
> > might be too SRP-biased.
> 
> "such as... and more" suggests that there are indeed more SCSI
> transports supported by Linux than mentioned in this help text.

I think that you can remove "such as" if you add SRP and SSA. "for
SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire, SAS, iSCSI, SRP, or
SSA" should be fine. But I'm not sure that scsi-ml has a SSA hba
driver. If not, we could remove SSA.


> We could also write "such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SAS, and more," if
> you suspect bias on my side. ;-)  Help texts should be concise.
> -- 
> Stefan Richter
> -=====-=-=== =--= -====
> http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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