From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
Cc: Hal Duston <hald@sound.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rasmus@jaquet.dk
Subject: Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:46:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010525164615.C14899@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10105231748550.23376-200000@sound.net> <3B0D733F.1829DC88@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B0D733F.1829DC88@yahoo.com>; from p_gortmaker@yahoo.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:46:55PM -0400
On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Hal Duston wrote:
>
> > http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4
> >
> > Hal Duston
> > hald@sound.net
>
> You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your
> driver - old default used to be 128, currently 255 (which maybe
> hardware can handle ok?) - the xd and hd drivers were broken until
> a similar fix was added to them.
>
> Probably makes sense for driver to set it regardless, seeing
> as default (MAX_SECTORS) has changed several times over last
> few months. At least then it will be under driver control
> and not at the mercy of some global value.
You might want to assign that max_sect array too, otherwise it's just
going to waste space :-)
Take a look at how ps2esdi handles requests -- always processing just
the first segment. Alas, it doesn't matter how big the request is.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-25 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-23 22:54 PS/2 Esdi patch #8 Hal Duston
2001-05-24 20:46 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-05-25 14:46 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-05-26 9:53 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-05-26 14:49 ` A Duston
2001-05-26 14:58 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-26 15:33 ` A Duston
2001-05-26 15:40 ` Jens Axboe
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