linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig

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Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:13:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
cc:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> Grant Coady <grant_lkml@...o.com.au> writes:
>
> >   ¦ ¦    --- Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA) drivers            ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦    <*>   AHCI SATA support                                          ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦    [*]   ATA ACPI Support                                           ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦    [ ]   SATA Port Multiplier support                               ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦    < >   Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support                       ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦    [*]   ATA SFF support                                            ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦            *** Serial ATA drivers ***                               ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦    < >     Initio 162x SATA support                                 ¦ ¦
> >   ¦ ¦    < >     Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support           ¦ ¦
>
> As noted, it's both PATA and SATA. People searching for PATA-only
> PIIX support may have trouble locating it under SATA.
>
> Why not remove ATA SFF support visual option (or leave it for
> optional off-tree drivers only, if it makes sense) and SELECT it
> when any driver using it is selected? I'm not sure that users know
> they need SFF, or what's that.
>
> I think I would also ask for PATA and for SATA first:
>
> [*] PATA support
> [*] SATA support

  that was sort my original thought, but i don't know enough about ATA
fundamentals to know if it makes sense for these to be independently
selectable.  that's why i nobly bailed and left it for someone else to
do the actual work.  :-)

rday
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