From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480DEB1F.5060500@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480DE9E8.2070809@ru.mvista.com>
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?
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-21 21:31 [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF Adrian Bunk
2008-04-22 11:39 ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-22 13:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-22 13:24 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-22 13:36 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-22 13:41 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-04-22 14:35 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-22 14:38 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-22 14:44 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-22 15:00 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-22 15:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-22 18:54 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-23 2:16 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-23 4:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-23 11:16 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-23 13:30 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-22 14:43 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-22 14:51 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-24 11:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 12:45 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-24 12:50 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-24 13:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-24 14:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 15:30 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-04-24 15:15 ` Alan Cox
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