Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 00:21:28 EST
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.
Jeff
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