On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:28PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> >
> > Put SATA into its own menu. Reason: using SCSI is an
> > implementation detail that users need not know about.
> >
> > Enabling SATA selects SCSI since SATA uses SCSI as a function
> > library supplier. It also enables BLK_DEV_SD since that is
> > what SATA drives look like in Linux.
>
> we'll soon support (or already do?) support sata atapi, when this
> won't be true anymore. Please never select scsi upper drivers from
> lower drivers, this independence is the whole point of the layered
> architecture.
It's already possible, and besides you could be using sg with your SATA
devices stand-alone if you so wanted. So this selection is indeed a
nonsensical one, it's an invalid dependency.
--
Jens Axboe
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