From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763917AbYDVOjT (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:39:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761318AbYDVOi6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:38:58 -0400 Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.152]:47682 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760074AbYDVOi4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:38:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hChYQWdV5rmcP7wS4JcIoETzybQJgfP4ld+L0Pye8mwtFP1Iwbve3l/HiHEn90j6HxcaAOibay6CEXJ3asPBf9/OKhseJsIvM8lKppYpDXlpRpH4ZDwTESjZhuYyAlwvZQe4YqHukrnK6tlSEz/DNe+oPiVkEIG10Wr0YtCF3+8= Message-ID: <480DF876.7070800@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:38:46 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Sergei Shtylyov , Jeff Garzik , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF 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> In-Reply-To: <480DF7B7.9030000@rtr.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> 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? > .. > > 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.... -- tejun