From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756755AbYDWNai (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:30:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752896AbYDWNa2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:30:28 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:2097 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752841AbYDWNa1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:30:27 -0400 Message-ID: <480F39F0.7050207@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:30:24 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tejun Heo , Sergei Shtylyov , 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> <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> In-Reply-To: <480EB930.1040308@garzik.org> 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 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo 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. > > At this point, it's too ingrained in libata. Another rename would IMO > just cause more needless churn. .. I heartily agree. Besides, we all seem to understand that -sff means the register level programming interface for ATA, with and without the old style bmdma. As opposed to some funky modern host queue style of interface. It's as good a split as any. cheers