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

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Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:16:46 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Mark Lord <liml@....ca>,
	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

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
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