From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>,
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: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:16:46 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480F1A9E.6080003@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480EB930.1040308@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik 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.
I wasn't watching libata activity even to such a small extent that I'm
doing it now, and I haven't found the discussion now.
> At this point, it's too ingrained in libata. Another rename would IMO
> just cause more needless churn.
Well, renaming -bmdma to -sff was logical. What's not so logical is that
module covering not only BMDMA activities but also taskfile access.
> Jeff
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 11:17 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
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 [this message]
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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