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(S0106000c41bb86e1.ss.shawcable.net [70.76.47.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm1460698yxh.31.2009.10.26.18.41.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE64FCC.4030102@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:41:32 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel , ide , David Miller Subject: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org The current Kconfig text for CONFIG_IDE doesn't give a hint to users that this subsystem is currently in maintenance mode and isn't actively developed. Let's correct this by marking it as deprecated, and also get rid of a bunch of unnecessary text that doesn't really have anything to do with what the option is for. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock --- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index 9a5d0aa..98ccfeb 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -7,50 +7,25 @@ config HAVE_IDE bool menuconfig IDE - tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" + tristate "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED)" depends on HAVE_IDE depends on BLOCK ---help--- - If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage low cost mass - storage units such as ATA/(E)IDE and ATAPI units. The most common - cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI CD-ROM drives. - - If your system is pure SCSI and doesn't use these interfaces, you - can say N here. - - Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE aka ATA-1) is a connecting standard - for mass storage units such as hard disks. It was designed by - Western Digital and Compaq Computer in 1984. It was then named - ST506. Quite a number of disks use the IDE interface. - - AT Attachment (ATA) is the superset of the IDE specifications. - ST506 was also called ATA-1. - - Fast-IDE is ATA-2 (also named Fast ATA), Enhanced IDE (EIDE) is - ATA-3. It provides support for larger disks (up to 8.4GB by means of - the LBA standard), more disks (4 instead of 2) and for other mass - storage units such as tapes and cdrom. UDMA/33 (aka UltraDMA/33) is - ATA-4 and provides faster (and more CPU friendly) transfer modes - than previous PIO (Programmed processor Input/Output) from previous - ATA/IDE standards by means of fast DMA controllers. - - ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) is a protocol used by EIDE tape and - CD-ROM drives, similar in many respects to the SCSI protocol. - - SMART IDE (Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) was - designed in order to prevent data corruption and disk crash by - detecting pre hardware failure conditions (heat, access time, and - the like...). Disks built since June 1995 may follow this standard. - The kernel itself doesn't manage this; however there are quite a - number of user programs such as smart that can query the status of - SMART parameters from disk drives. + If you say Y here, your kernel will be able to manage ATA/(E)IDE and + ATAPI units. The most common cases are IDE hard drives and ATAPI + CD-ROM drives. + + This subsystem is currently in maintenance mode with only bug fix + changes applied. Users of ATA hardware are encouraged to migrate to + the newer ATA subsystem ("Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA + (experimental) drivers") which is more actively maintained. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ide-core. For further information, please read . - If unsure, say Y. + If unsure, say N. if IDE