linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA

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Message-ID: <480DFE76.8000809@ru.mvista.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:04:22 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF

Mark Lord wrote:

>>> 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....

> ..

> I suppose.   If we were needlessly pedantic, then perhaps
> the libata-bmdma.c should be renamed to libata-sff.c,
> and the libata-sff.c should be renamed libata-tf.c

    Which branch has libata-bmdma.c?

> But there's probably been a document or two since then,
> where the SFF folks have documented the TF interfaces, too.

    Don't know, at least I haven't encountered such spec. Unless you mean 
SFF-8020i (ATAPI CD-ROM spec).

> So.. whatever.  :)

MBR, Sergei
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