On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:46:54 -0500 Ed Sweetman wrote:I provided a patch a couple weeks ago when I brought this topic up myself, but it was largely ignored because it wasn't the "add something to help dialog" solution... I figured that the wording would be changed anyway by the ide / libata guys or anyone else really involved with the kernel. So I opted to provide a patch that did one of the other solutions, namely, adding fake libata block devices in the libata section that would merely enable the scsi blk dev variables as if you had gone into the scsi section and did it the way it's currently done. In any case, prior to this thread, I got basically no response on the matter.
-ETOOMANYWORDS && -ENOPATCH, so here is one to consider.
Help text can also be added. <supply text>
This is similar to what USB storage already does.