Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:13:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig |
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Grant Coady <grant_lkml@dodo.com.au> writes: > > > ¦ ¦ --- Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA) drivers ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ <*> AHCI SATA support ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ [*] ATA ACPI Support ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ [ ] SATA Port Multiplier support ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ < > Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ [*] ATA SFF support ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ *** Serial ATA drivers *** ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ < > Initio 162x SATA support ¦ ¦ > > ¦ ¦ < > Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support ¦ ¦ > > As noted, it's both PATA and SATA. People searching for PATA-only > PIIX support may have trouble locating it under SATA. > > Why not remove ATA SFF support visual option (or leave it for > optional off-tree drivers only, if it makes sense) and SELECT it > when any driver using it is selected? I'm not sure that users know > they need SFF, or what's that. > > I think 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. that's why i nobly bailed and left it for someone else to do the actual work. :-)
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