Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF

[Tejun Heo]

Mark Lord wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > > > >    Jeff, Tejun, what "sff" in the file name actually means? Isn't 
> > > > > it strange that the drivers lacking DMA support or not really 
> > > > > compliant with SFF-8038i have to link with this file?
> > >
> > > > Maybe it should be libata-tf and libata-bmdma, but sff (sans bmdma)
> > > > and bmdma is acceptable, hopefully, right?
> > >
> > >    What's sff sans bmdma?
> >
> > Supposed to be TF interface.  IIRC, the SFF term was first from Alan 
> > although it's entirely possible that I misunderstood it and used it in 
> > the wrong way.  Alan, can you please clear up the confusion?
> ..
>
> 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....

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tejun
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