Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

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