From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (RAW VARY)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:49:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109144919.E12609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020109132148.C12609@redhat.com> <200201091928.g09JSdH23535@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <200201091928.g09JSdH23535@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>; from pbadari@us.ibm.com on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:28:39AM -0800
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:28:39AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Ben,
>
> By any chance do you have a list of drivers that assume this ?
> What does it take to fix them ?
No, doing the audit *is* the hard work in creating a patch like this.
> If it is not reasonable to fix all the brokern drivers,
> how about making this configurable (to do variable size IO) ?
> Do you favour this solution ?
How does that solve anything? There is no way for a user to be even
remotely confident that enabling the option will not corrupt data. As
a distributor, that makes it impossible to enable. As a developer,
that's just unsound practice.
-ben
--
Blue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 17:41 [PATCH] PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (RAW VARY) Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-09 17:58 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-09 18:12 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-09 18:21 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-09 19:28 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-09 19:49 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-01-09 22:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-09 23:48 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-10 10:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-10 10:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-10 10:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-10 10:22 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 10:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-10 10:51 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 11:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-10 16:58 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-11 13:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-10 19:24 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-10 20:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 21:03 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-10 21:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 21:15 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-15 3:16 ` Joel Becker
2002-01-10 7:12 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-09 18:13 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-09 22:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-09 23:20 ` Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-10 0:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 4:06 ` GOTO Masanori
[not found] <200201091741.g09HfAI17240@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20020109125845.B12609@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-01-09 18:15 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] <200201102153.g0ALrl402482@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
2002-01-10 22:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 22:20 ` Badari Pulavarty
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