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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: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Robert Hancock 2009-10-26 15:41:32 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
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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 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.
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.
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