On 3/17/06, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Even given the current thread's confusion, I rather like the existing > names. Everybody does DMA these days, so ATA_CMD_WRITE being of DMA > protocol seems the most natural to me. You'd be amazed how many drives ship into new hardware designs that use PIO. We've even been asked for non-spec-compliant PIO changes to improve performance. Personally I like Albert's renaming patch. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
