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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Subject: Re: bytes/CDB of SCSI pass thru grossly limited maybe
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:14:06 -0400
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> At the struct request level a flag is needed.  A "CDB" may be a SCSI
> CDB, an ATA taskfile, an I2O command, etc.  The block layer must treat
> any cdb buffer as an anonymous blob that gets passed through to a lower
> layer.

Ah, yes, that's true -- I missed the fact that you were talking
considering the flag at the struct request level.

		Luben