Re: [PATCH UPDATED][2] cosmetic adaption of drivers/ide/Kconfig concerningSATA

[Patrick Ringl]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sunday 18 March 2007, Patrick Ringl wrote:
>   
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >     
> > > On Sunday 18 March 2007, Patrick Ringl wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Hello,
> > > >         
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >       
> > > > since especially Serial ATA has it's own menu point now, I guess we can 
> > > > change the description of the deprecated SATA driver as well, since the 
> > > > new libATA subsystem is not configured through a SCSI low-level driver 
> > > > anymore, but has it's own menu point.
> > > >
> > > > The following patch is against 2.6.21-rc4:
> > > >
> > > > --- linux-2.6.20.old/drivers/ide/Kconfig	2007-03-18 00:05:11.000000000 +0100
> > > > +++ linux-2.6.20/drivers/ide/Kconfig	2007-03-18 00:09:47.000000000 +0100
> > > > @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
> > > >   	---help---
> > > >   	  There are two drivers for Serial ATA controllers.
> > > >
> > > > -	  The main driver, "libata", exists inside the SCSI subsystem
> > > > +	  The main driver, "libata", exists inside the ATA subsystem
> > > >         
> > > Strictly speaking libata is not a separate subsystem (it still uses SCSI
> > > subsystem) and "ATA subsystem" may be misleading, since we now have:
> > >
> > > * "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" menu for drivers/ide
> > >
> > > * "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers" menu for libata
> > >
> > > What about replacing "exists inside" into "uses" and adding info about
> > > the new menu instead?
> > >       
> > Well, that's even a better idea :-) I wasn't that sure about what to do 
> > .. it's just that it could be misleading since the new (s/p)ata drivers 
> > are not living in the scsi low-level subsystem anymore, but got their 
> > own menu point.
> >
> > Here's a different patch >:)
> >     
>
> applied
>
> [ The patch was whitespace damaged and didn't apply et all
>   so I had to manually change the Kconfig to merge your change. ]
>   
D'Oh .. Probably due to the fact that I copied it and did not attach it 
in plain/text.

Thanks

> Thanks,
> Bart
>
>   

regards,
Patrick
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