From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: rwheeler@redhat.com, snitzer@redhat.com, jeff@garzik.org,
neilb@suse.de, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
dgilbert@interlog.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8 of 9] libata: Report disk alignment and physical block size
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:32:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090424123209.GB1926@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47f4f448a804a2d24f10.1240551149@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:32:29AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> For disks with 4KB sectors, report the correct block size and alignment
> when filling out the READ CAPACITY(16) response.
>
> This patch is based upon code from Matthew Wilcox' 4KB ATA tree. I
> fixed the bug I reported a while back caused by ATA and SCSI using
> different approaches to describing the alignment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 5:32 [PATCH 0 of 9] I/O topology patch kit Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 1 of 9] block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfs Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 2 of 9] block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 12:14 ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-24 12:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-24 14:37 ` Carl Henrik Lunde
2009-04-24 14:37 ` Carl Henrik Lunde
2009-04-24 14:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-24 15:16 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 15:00 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 14:53 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 3 of 9] MD: Use new topology calls to indicate alignment and I/O sizes Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 4 of 9] sd: Physical block size and alignment support Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 5 of 9] sd: Detect non-rotational devices Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 6 of 9] sd: Block limits VPD support Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 7 of 9] scsi_debug: Add support for physical block exponent and alignment Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 6:10 ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-04-24 6:14 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 8 of 9] libata: Report disk alignment and physical block size Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 12:32 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 5:32 ` [PATCH 9 of 9] libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristics Martin K. Petersen
2009-04-24 12:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-24 5:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
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