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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF
Tejun Heo 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

I can't figure out to which SFF specs this refers then... althought I'm
not really familiar with them well enough.

> and BMDMA
> is used for the BMDMA part of SFF-8038i.

Is there any other part in it? One concerning PCI?

> I think this is the source of confusion here.

Yes.

>> 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?

What's sff sans bmdma?

> Thanks.

WBR, Sergei


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