From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] remove scsi_request usage from sg and st Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:54:58 -0600 Message-ID: <4370D862.6080602@cs.wisc.edu> References: <1131444389.23111.56.camel@max> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:58016 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030255AbVKHQzC (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:55:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1131444389.23111.56.camel@max> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: axboe@suse.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Mike Christie wrote: > We will probably hit many problems with LLDs using low max_hw_sectors, > because they have not been converted to export their real values on the > host template so I think these patches should sit in scsi-misc for a > good deal of time. > oh yeah just to clarify, this patch [PATCH 2/10] seperate max sectors and max hw sectors, makes it so the scsi host template's max_sectors is passed up as q->max_hw_sectors. I did not know the correct limit for any SCSI LLD's sht->max_sectors so I could not convert them if they were previously setting a conservtaive value for reasons like libata.