Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Sep 09 2007 - 17:03:46 EST


> I can see where you're coming from, but logically, this is wrong.
> There's a huge slew of enterprise machines that only have DVD on SATA.

... and enterprise systems don't really care about a few KB more of code.
In fact you definitely want to have SATA compiled in in case you need
to recover the machine later when the SAN is down.

> On the other hand, all of these machines will have SCSI disk devices on
> various other transports, so no harm is done, it's just an inelegant
> solution.

Do you know of a better one?

-Andi
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