Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5

[Steve Byan]

On Mar 3, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Steve Byan wrote:
> > On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > I wouldn't expect it to. Most people use ATA for that, and it  
> > > tends to
> > > have lower limits than most SCSI HBA's (well, at least the old  
> > > PATA), so
> > > the change - if any - should at most change some of the sg.c  
> > > limits to be
> > > no less than what SG_IO has had on ATA forever.
> > >
> > > Not that I expect people to have a SCSI CD/DVD drive anyway in  
> > > this day
> > > and age, so the sg.c changes probably won't show up at all.
> >
> > CD-ROM support is a frequently-requested feature on the iSCSI  
> > Enterprise
> > Target (iet) email list. It won't be long before iSCSI CD and DVD  
> > devices
> > start showing up, although the underlying hardware will be ATAPI  
> > or else
> > missing entirely (i.e. ISO image file).
>
> Yes, but the point that the ATA limits tend to be on the low side  
> still
> stands.
>
> For example, I think the IDE driver defaults to a maximum transfer  
> of 256
> sectors, and the same number of max scatter-gather entries. Some
> controllers will actually lower that, due to silly hw problems.
>
> The point being that it has worked fine for IDE, and if a SCSI  
> controller
> has noticeably lower limits than that, there's something really  
> strange
> going on, like a real bug.

Yes, you are correct. I wasn't intending to contest your main point.  
I only intended to point out that ignoring bugs because no-one uses  
SCSI DVDs will soon lead to much grief.

Regards,
-Steve
--
Steve Byan <smb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Software Architect
Egenera, Inc.
165 Forest Street
Marlboro, MA 01752
(508) 858-3125


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