Re: PATCH] ata: Kconfig: Elaborate that SFF is meant for legacy and PATA stuff

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On 08/12/2012 05:54 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:43:42 +0200

Building Linux for an ASUS Eee PC 701 4G with

         ata2.00: CFA: SILICONMOTION SM223AC, , max UDMA/66
         ata2.00: 7815024 sectors, multi 0: LBA
         ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
         scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SILICONMOTION SM n/a  PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
         sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 7815024 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.72 GiB)
         sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
         sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
         sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
          sda: sda1
         sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
         sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

I followed the advice to not use the deprecated old PATA subsystem

         ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED)  --->

and use the ATA subsystem instead.

         Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers  --->

Unfortunately I needed several tries to find out, that I needed the SFF
menu I had not selected before because I had never heard that term
before. I think it would have helped me, to have PATA or legacy IDE in
that item’s name.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
If you can improve the commit summary, I would be thankful.

  drivers/ata/Kconfig |    2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ata/Kconfig b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
index 2be8ef1..27cecd3 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ config SATA_SIL24
  	  If unsure, say N.

  config ATA_SFF
-	bool "ATA SFF support"
+	bool "ATA SFF support (for legacy IDE and PATA)"
  	default y
  	help
  	  This option adds support for ATA controllers with SFF

applied



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