Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:38:46 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF |
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Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Sergei Shtylyov wrote: >>>>> Jeff, Tejun, what "sff" in the file name actually means? Isn't >>>>> it strange that the drivers lacking DMA support or not really >>>>> compliant with SFF-8038i have to link with this file? >>> >>>> Maybe it should be libata-tf and libata-bmdma, but sff (sans bmdma) >>>> and bmdma is acceptable, hopefully, right? >>> >>> What's sff sans bmdma? >> >> Supposed to be TF interface. IIRC, the SFF term was first from Alan >> although it's entirely possible that I misunderstood it and used it in >> the wrong way. Alan, can you please clear up the confusion? > .. > > SFF stands for "Small Form Factor", as in the "SFF Committee Information > Specification for Bus Master Programming Interface for IDE ATA > Controllers Rev 1.0" > from May 16, 1994. > > That document is basically a committee rubber-stamp of the earlier Intel > "PCI IDE Controller Specification Revision 1.0" dated 3/4/94.
Ah.. that means we have the whole naming thing wrong. Yewwww....
-- tejun
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