Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 13:26:29 EST




On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>
> > You can stop right there with the 1 MB reads. Welcome
> > to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many
> > size shortcomings with the block subsystem.
>
> What is the reason to break user-space applications like this?

Did you read the whole thread? It was a low-level SCSI driver issue, where
nothing broke user space, but the command was just fed to the drive
differently, which then hit a limit in the driver.

Linus
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