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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Alas it does not or we would have done so. A lot of the chips have
> things like 'two SATA one PATA' and some of them have SATA and PATA
> variants of the same chip. Then we have generic drivers like
> ata_generic which really don't care if its SATA or PATA ..

at this point, i'll back away slowly and leave it for someone way
smarter than me to decide on.  at the very least, most of those
EXPERIMENTAL tags can be heaved over the side.

rday
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