Re: [PATCH 1/4] SATA ACPI build (applies to 2.6.16-git9)

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 06:26:05 EST


On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:01:01AM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:04:18PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:07:13PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > > > Could you add some help text over here? At first glance I got the
> > > > impression this was a host driver that works through ACPI calls, but by
> > > > reading the rest of your patches it turns out it is a suspend/resume
> > > > helper.
> > >
> > > Something like this should already be enough:
> > >
> > > This option enables support for SATA suspend/resume using ACPI.
> > >
> > > If you really need this enabled to be able to use suspend/resume at
> > > all, you could add a line like:
> > >
> > > It's safe to say Y. If you say N, you might get serious disk
> > > corruption when you suspend your machine.
> > >...
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > This is not a user-visible option...
>
> Just curious, how do you see it's not user visible?

There's neither a "prompt" line nor a string after the "bool".

> Erik

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Adrian

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