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

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Message-ID: <480E9C15.6080103@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:16:53 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
CC:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>, 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

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello, I wrote:
> 
>>> I suppose.   If we were needlessly pedantic, then perhaps
>>> the libata-bmdma.c should be renamed to libata-sff.c,
> 
>    It *was* renamed to libata-sff.c, back in 2006. :-)
> 
>>> and the libata-sff.c should be renamed libata-tf.c
> 
>    Not before splitting SFF-8038i stuff from it.
> 
>>> 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).
> 
>    I've looked thru the list of their spec. and it didn't seem to have 
> any about taskfile specifically. SFF-8070 (ATAPI CD-RW) refers to 
> ATA/PI-4 for that matter.

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.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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