Re: [PATCH update] SCSI: update Kconfig help text to indicate SCSIcore's widespread usage

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:14:21 +0200 (CEST)
Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> And one more update:
> There is SAS too, and I forgot 'is' in "on a disk which __ accessed via".
> 
>  drivers/scsi/Kconfig |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.23-rc6/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc6.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc6/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> @@ -12,23 +12,31 @@ config SCSI
>  	depends on BLOCK
>  	select SCSI_DMA if HAS_DMA
>  	---help---
> -	  If you want to use a SCSI hard disk, SCSI tape drive, SCSI CD-ROM or
> -	  any other SCSI device under Linux, say Y and make sure that you know
> -	  the name of your SCSI host adapter (the card inside your computer
> -	  that "speaks" the SCSI protocol, also called SCSI controller),
> -	  because you will be asked for it.
> -
> -	  You also need to say Y here if you have a device which speaks
> -	  the SCSI protocol.  Examples of this include the parallel port
> -	  version of the IOMEGA ZIP drive, USB storage devices, Fibre
> -	  Channel, FireWire storage and the IDE-SCSI emulation driver.
> +	  This option enables core support for SCSI protocols.
> +	  You need it
> +	  - for classic parallel SCSI hardware,
> +	  - for newer SCSI transports such as Fibre Channel, FireWire storage,
> +	    SAS, or iSCSI,

There is SRP too.
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