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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] cleanup Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Kconfig
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. :-)

rday
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