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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2007-06-11 20:59:34 +0200
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-07-02 16:12:34 +0200
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scsi disk help file is not complete
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:28:16 +0200 api wrote: > Good day, > When doing make menuconfig one comes across CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD. > The help file states that this is for scsi disks.NO MENTION IS MADE THAT > IT IS NEEDE FOR SATA DISKS AS WELL! > Would have saved me a lot of time if the help was up to date. > I hope this can be changed so others can make a kernel for sata systems > quicker. From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Add help info for BLK_DEV_SD referring to its use in SATA or PATA driver configurations. Add help text for "ATA" indicating that it probably needs some SCSI config symbols enabled in order to be useful. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
index 2b2f5c12019b..eb46cb0e3cb7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SD
depends on SCSI
---help---
If you want to use SCSI hard disks, Fibre Channel disks,
+ Serial ATA (SATA) or Parallel ATA (PATA) hard disks,
USB storage or the SCSI or parallel port version of
the IOMEGA ZIP drive, say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO,
the Disk-HOWTO and the Multi-Disk-HOWTO, available from