linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA

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Message-ID: <20080422113927.GA12774@kernel.dk>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:39:27 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF

On Tue, Apr 22 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Making ATA_SFF a user-visible option with the drivers needing it
> depending on it caused the following problems:
> - people lose their driver when accidentally disabling it
> - people not requiring it needlessly enable it
> 
> Fortunately, we don't have to bother the user with this option at all
> since we can simply select it when it's required.

Hear hear, the newly introduced ATA_SFF config is a mess, this is much
better.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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