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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF
Hi,

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> ADMA is not SFF-8038i compilant, it's the IDE DMA spec of its own.
> And I'm seeing references to libata-sff.c... confusing.

In libata, SFF is used for controllers which have TF interface and BMDMA
is used for the BMDMA part of SFF-8038i. I think this is the source of
confusion here.

> Looks like there's no clean separation within libata-sff.c itself
> between SFF-8038i (BMDMA spec) and IDE registers itself -- that confused
> me: at first I thought there's a big issue with a patch. :-/
>
> 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?

Thanks.

--
tejun


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