From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:16:46 +0400 Message-ID: <480F1A9E.6080003@ru.mvista.com> References: <20080421213147.GH2633@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <480DE3C4.5@ru.mvista.com> <480DE6F5.8060403@gmail.com> <480DE9E8.2070809@ru.mvista.com> <480DEB1F.5060500@gmail.com> <480DF7B7.9030000@rtr.ca> <480DF876.7070800@gmail.com> <480DF9BD.1080104@rtr.ca> <480DFE76.8000809@ru.mvista.com> <480E345D.9090406@ru.mvista.com> <480E9C15.6080103@gmail.com> <480EB930.1040308@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:48365 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751211AbYDWLRZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:17:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <480EB930.1040308@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tejun Heo , Mark Lord , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox 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