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author | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2008-09-02 14:18:48 -0400 |
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committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2008-09-02 14:18:48 -0400 |
commit | 5a61dd9ec8c5a8e14fbccda3ab042555b692b9b2 (patch) | |
tree | ef156d8c8e19848f6d1b5f74d1215cad6ccad8a5 /drivers/ide/Kconfig | |
parent | ab1b67a6230648cf65b0342d9887fee890160ca8 (diff) |
ide/Kconfig: mark ide-scsi as deprecated
Mark ide-scsi as deprecated and remove stale/bogus documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig index a34758d29516..fc735ab08ff4 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ide/Kconfig | |||
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY | |||
242 | module will be called ide-floppy. | 242 | module will be called ide-floppy. |
243 | 243 | ||
244 | config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI | 244 | config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI |
245 | tristate "SCSI emulation support" | 245 | tristate "SCSI emulation support (DEPRECATED)" |
246 | depends on SCSI | 246 | depends on SCSI |
247 | select IDE_ATAPI | 247 | select IDE_ATAPI |
248 | ---help--- | 248 | ---help--- |
@@ -255,20 +255,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_IDESCSI | |||
255 | and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native | 255 | and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native |
256 | ATAPI driver. | 256 | ATAPI driver. |
257 | 257 | ||
258 | This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native | ||
259 | driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD drive); | ||
260 | you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI | ||
261 | device driver. In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support" | ||
262 | and "SCSI generic support", below. You must then provide the kernel | ||
263 | command line "hdx=ide-scsi" (try "man bootparam" or see the | ||
264 | documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to | ||
265 | pass options to the kernel at boot time) for devices if you want the | ||
266 | native EIDE sub-drivers to skip over the native support, so that | ||
267 | this SCSI emulation can be used instead. | ||
268 | |||
269 | Note that this option does NOT allow you to attach SCSI devices to a | ||
270 | box that doesn't have a SCSI host adapter installed. | ||
271 | |||
272 | If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled | 258 | If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled |
273 | into the kernel, the native support will be used. | 259 | into the kernel, the native support will be used. |
274 | 260 | ||