From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:18:48 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ide/Kconfig: mark ide-scsi as deprecated X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc6~76^2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a61dd9ec8c5a8e14fbccda3ab042555b692b9b2;p=linux-2.6 ide/Kconfig: mark ide-scsi as deprecated Mark ide-scsi as deprecated and remove stale/bogus documentation. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index a34758d295..fc735ab08f 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY module will be called ide-floppy. config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI - tristate "SCSI emulation support" + tristate "SCSI emulation support (DEPRECATED)" depends on SCSI select IDE_ATAPI ---help--- @@ -255,20 +255,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native ATAPI driver. - This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native - driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD drive); - you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI - device driver. In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support" - and "SCSI generic support", below. You must then provide the kernel - command line "hdx=ide-scsi" (try "man bootparam" or see the - documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to - pass options to the kernel at boot time) for devices if you want the - native EIDE sub-drivers to skip over the native support, so that - this SCSI emulation can be used instead. - - Note that this option does NOT allow you to attach SCSI devices to a - box that doesn't have a SCSI host adapter installed. - If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled into the kernel, the native support will be used.