From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] RESEND: SCSI, libata: add support for ATA_16 commands to libata ATAPI devices Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:54:28 -0500 Message-ID: <45C1B8D4.1070209@garzik.org> References: <200701021935.07840.liml@rtr.ca> <200701311346.26644.liml@rtr.ca> <45C1356B.6000907@gmail.com> <45C1377F.6070001@rtr.ca> <45C138E8.1040706@gmail.com> <45C1A4BD.3030909@garzik.org> <45C1A823.30008@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37507 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422728AbXBAJyb (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 04:54:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45C1A823.30008@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Mark Lord , Linux IDE , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Well, it's not any worse than what we're currently doing. We don't set Agreed... but that doesn't make it the /right/ thing to do ;-) The logic behind the current code, which limits to the maximum size allowed by an attached device on the port, is mainly to leverage the SCSI layer as a filter for bad CDB lengths. IOW, it's called "being lazy" ;-) Jeff