Commit 73ba3232 authored by Robert Hancock's avatar Robert Hancock Committed by David S. Miller
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ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated 



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: default avatarRobert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent cbba2fa7

drivers/ide/Kconfig

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@@ -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 <file:Documentation/ide/ide.txt>.



	  If unsure, say Y.

	  If unsure, say N.



if IDE

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