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config: Make need for SCSI_CDROM clearer

PATCH In review Alan Cox 2 participants 2 messages Mar 26, 2009 SCSI

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PATCH 1/1 config: Make need for SCSI_CDROM clearer

Mention ATAPI. We could insert an essay about libata and ide-scsi etc but the failure case is someone enables it which is just fine so keep it simple.

Closes #7736

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 drivers/scsi/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
drivers/scsi/Kconfig +1 -1
index 256c7be..6b5091b 100644
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SR
 	tristate "SCSI CDROM support"
 	depends on SCSI
 	---help---
-	  If you want to use a SCSI or FireWire CD-ROM under Linux,
+	  If you want to use a SCSI, FireWire or ATAPI CD-ROM under Linux,
 	  say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO and the CDROM-HOWTO at
 	  <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Also make sure to say
 	  Y or M to "ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system support" later.
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drivers/scsi/Kconfig config BLK_DEV_SR · line 125

Quoted 3 lines · Alan Cox
drivers/scsi/Kconfig +1 -1
-	  If you want to use a SCSI or FireWire CD-ROM under Linux,
+	  If you want to use a SCSI, FireWire or ATAPI CD-ROM under Linux,
 	  say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO and the CDROM-HOWTO at

Should probably add USB drives here too, since they seem to be getting more common:

+ If you want to use a SCSI, FireWire, USB or ATAPI CD-ROM under
+ Linux, say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO and the CDROM-HOWTO at

I don't think we need to mention Fibre Channel here ... I'm not convinced there are any FC CD-ROM drives in existence, and if there are, they're sufficiently uncommon to not produce bug reports.

Also, should we perhaps add DVD drives here?

+	  If you want to use a CD or DVD drive attached to your computer
+	  by SCSI, FireWire, USB or ATAPI, say Y and read the SCSI-HOWTO
+	  and the CDROM-HOWTO at <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
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