Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:21:04 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] select ATA_SFF |
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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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