From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:51 +0900 Message-ID: <480DEB1F.5060500@gmail.com> References: <20080421213147.GH2633@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <480DE3C4.5@ru.mvista.com> <480DE6F5.8060403@gmail.com> <480DE9E8.2070809@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <480DE9E8.2070809@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Jeff Garzik , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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