Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:04:22 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF |
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Mark Lord wrote:
>>> 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....
> ..
> I suppose. If we were needlessly pedantic, then perhaps > the libata-bmdma.c should be renamed to libata-sff.c, > and the libata-sff.c should be renamed libata-tf.c
Which branch has libata-bmdma.c?
> But there's probably been a document or two since then, > where the SFF folks have documented the TF interfaces, too.
Don't know, at least I haven't encountered such spec. Unless you mean SFF-8020i (ATAPI CD-ROM spec).
> So.. whatever. :)
MBR, Sergei
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