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

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Message-Id: <20070914114042M.tomof@acm.org>
Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:52:38 +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 08:16:03 +0200
Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:14:21 +0200 (CEST)
> > Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> ...
> >> And one more update:
> >> There is SAS too,
> ...
> >> +	  You need it
> >> +	  - for classic parallel SCSI hardware,
> >> +	  - for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage,
> >> +	    SAS, or iSCSI,
> > 
> > There is SRP too.
> 
> I think I'll rewrite it as "for newer SCSI transports such as FireWire
> storage."  ;-)
> 
> If SRP was in, can 'such as' be omitted?  "for newer SCSI transports
> (Fibre Channel, FireWire storage, iSCSI, SAS, SRP),"

It might be necessary to add SSA too.


> 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.
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