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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:51 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
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       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF
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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