From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>, Mark Rustad <mrustad@mac.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:32:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4405E8AA.1090803@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603011027400.22647@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> You can stop right there with the 1 MB reads. Welcome
>>> to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many
>>> size shortcomings with the block subsystem.
>> What is the reason to break user-space applications like this?
>
> Did you read the whole thread? It was a low-level SCSI driver issue, where
> nothing broke user space, but the command was just fed to the drive
> differently, which then hit a limit in the driver.
Will this break major applications like CD/DVD rippers,
DVD players, etc.. which read LARGE blocks at a time?
If not, then good!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-01 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-28 17:54 sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5 Mark Rustad
2006-02-28 19:53 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-02-28 20:38 ` Kai Makisara
2006-03-01 2:04 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-03-01 2:08 ` Mark Rustad
2006-03-01 8:38 ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-01 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 18:32 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-03-01 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 18:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-03 18:27 ` Steve Byan
2006-03-03 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 19:13 ` Steve Byan
2006-03-03 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-03 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 20:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-01 19:33 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-03-01 20:42 ` Mike Christie
2006-03-01 22:30 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-01 22:56 ` Mike Christie
2006-03-01 21:06 ` Kai Makisara
2006-03-02 19:50 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-03-02 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-02 23:08 ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-02 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 16:43 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-03-03 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-02 23:06 ` Matthias Andree
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-02 23:04 Falkinder, David Malcolm
2006-03-02 23:04 ` Falkinder, David Malcolm
2006-03-03 20:24 Falkinder, David Malcolm
2006-03-03 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
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