Re: [PATCH] IDE TCQ #4

Martin Dalecki
2002-04-18T13:11:06Z

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
>>Jens Axboe wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Apr 18 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>BTW> Jens: Do you have any idea what the "sector chaing" in ide-cd is
>>>>good for?! I would love to just get rid of it alltogether!
>>>
>>>
>>>Sector chaining? Are you talking about the cdrom_read_intr() comments?
>>
>>Sorry I did mean sector caching.
>
>
> That's for padding/caching sub-frame sized reads.

I tought the BIO layer did this alredy... Well it's a pain
in the a** to deal with it. IDE-FLOPPY is passing packet commands
through the request buffer but IDE-CD is passing them through
request special field... argh!