Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:30:24 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Aik... We can do s/sff/tf/ and leave bmdma alone to avoid even more >> confusion but sff has meant tf base interface for quite some time now >> in libata and I think it'll be better to remember that sff is the new >> tf. Sorry about the mess. > > > This renaming was discussed at the time on lkml and linux-ide, the > patches and git pushes were CC'd, and I do not recall these complaints > being raised at the time. > > At this point, it's too ingrained in libata. Another rename would IMO > just cause more needless churn. ..
I heartily agree.
Besides, we all seem to understand that -sff means the register level programming interface for ATA, with and without the old style bmdma.
As opposed to some funky modern host queue style of interface.
It's as good a split as any.
cheers
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