From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, 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 19:04:22 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480DFE76.8000809@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480DF9BD.1080104@rtr.ca>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 15:04 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
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 [this message]
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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