- patches.suse/slab-handle-memoryless-nodes-v2a.patch: Refresh.

[linux-flexiantxendom0-3.2.10.git] / drivers / ide / Kconfig

diff --git a/drivers/ide/Kconfig b/drivers/ide/Kconfig
index 9a5d0aa..98ccfeb 100644 (file)
--- 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 <file:Documentation/ide/ide.txt>.
 
-         If unsure, say Y.
+         If unsure, say N.
 
 if IDE