update the BLK_DEV_HD help text
Many people will see this option the first time now that it is in drivers/block/ Make it clear that virtually noone needs it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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@ -434,27 +434,15 @@ config VIRTIO_BLK
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lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
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config BLK_DEV_HD
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bool "Old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver"
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bool "Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver"
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depends on HAVE_IDE
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depends on !ARM || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_SHARK || BROKEN
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help
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There are two drivers for MFM/RLL/IDE hard disks. Most people use
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the newer enhanced driver, but this old one is still around for two
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reasons. Some older systems have strange timing problems and seem to
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work only with the old driver (which itself does not work with some
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newer systems). The other reason is that the old driver is smaller,
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since it lacks the enhanced functionality of the new one. This makes
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it a good choice for systems with very tight memory restrictions, or
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for systems with only older MFM/RLL/ESDI drives. Choosing the old
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driver can save 13 KB or so of kernel memory.
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This is a very old hard disk driver that lacks the enhanced
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functionality of the newer ones.
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If you want to use this driver together with the new one you have
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to use "hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" kernel parameters to prevent the new
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driver from probing the primary interface.
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It is required for systems with ancient MFM/RLL/ESDI drives.
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If you are unsure, then just choose the Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL driver
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instead of this one. For more detailed information, read the
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Disk-HOWTO, available from
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<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
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If unsure, say N.
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endif # BLK_DEV
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