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@ 2005-03-25 7:03 Søren Lott
2005-03-25 7:18 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Søren Lott @ 2005-03-25 7:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: jgarzik
in the SATA kconfig menu, the help message from
Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support says:
CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX:
This option enables support for ICH5 Serial ATA.
If PATA support was enabled previously, this enables
support for select Intel PIIX/ICH PATA host controllers.
anyone care to clarify if this mean that having enabled:
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
i can use the PATA ports on a ICH5 controller through libata ?
if not, which is exactly the meaning of "If PATA support was enabled
previously" on this message ?
thanks.
-SL.
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2005-03-25 7:03 Søren Lott
@ 2005-03-25 7:18 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2005-03-25 7:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Søren Lott; +Cc: linux-kernel
Søren Lott wrote:
> in the SATA kconfig menu, the help message from
> Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support says:
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX:
>
> This option enables support for ICH5 Serial ATA.
> If PATA support was enabled previously, this enables
> support for select Intel PIIX/ICH PATA host controllers.
>
> anyone care to clarify if this mean that having enabled:
>
> CONFIG_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
>
> i can use the PATA ports on a ICH5 controller through libata ?
> if not, which is exactly the meaning of "If PATA support was enabled
> previously" on this message ?
I agree it is quite confusing wording. Probably should remove all
reference to PATA in the CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX Kconfig entry.
The comment is referring to the somewhat-hidden fact that if you define
ATA_ENABLE_PATA in include/linux/libata.h, then libata will support your
Intel PIIX PATA controllers, in addition to the Intel PIIX SATA controllers.
However, since ATAPI support isn't yet stable, this is of limited
usefulness.
Jeff
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