From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aacraid 2.4.0 kernel
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:28:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010208042806.J27027@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CDF99E351003D311A8B0009027457F1403BF9CA3@ausxmrr501.us.dell.com>
In-Reply-To: <CDF99E351003D311A8B0009027457F1403BF9CA3@ausxmrr501.us.dell.com>; from Matt_Domsch@Dell.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:24:00PM -0600
On Wed, Feb 07 2001, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> > I haven't seen this driver, but if it uses the SCSI layer instead
> > of being a "pure" block driver then I can see a slight problem
> > in that currently only understand max sg entry limits and not
> > total request sizes. I would rather fix this limitation then, and
> > would also be interested to know if any of the (older) SCSI drivers
> > have such limitations too.
>
> Yes, it's a SCSI driver, not a block driver. Adaptec thought it prudent to
> try to fix this in their driver rather than try to change the SCSI layer in
> 2.4.x just now. They expected it would be more difficult getting such a
> change through validation and into the kernel in a timely manner.
The changes are going to be really small and obvious. Which I bet
the driver changes won't :-). And as I said, if other drivers have
this limitation too then we need to do it anyway.
--
Jens Axboe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-08 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-08 3:24 aacraid 2.4.0 kernel Matt_Domsch
2001-02-08 3:28 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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2001-02-08 3:03 Matt_Domsch
2001-02-08 3:18 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-08 8:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-08 14:56 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-08 8:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-07 22:23 Jason Ford
2001-02-07 22:47 ` Byron Stanoszek
2001-02-08 0:37 ` Jason Ford
2001-02-08 0:55 ` Byron Stanoszek
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