Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF

[Mark Lord]

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
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