Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF

[Tejun Heo]

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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