From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760266AbYBAUeU (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:34:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757255AbYBAUeN (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:34:13 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46405 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753359AbYBAUeM (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:34:12 -0500 Message-ID: <47A38241.9070602@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:34:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: LKML , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] libata: update ATAPI overflow draining References: <11992723701811-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <11992723711166-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <11992723711166-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tejun, If you could explain your objection to James's patches in this area, I would really appreciate it. We have several conflicting patches in this area, and we need to get the details sorted. I think you mentioned a key objection that was we actually need to know /two/ sizes at the block layer: (1) the size including all padding and drain buffers, and (2) the raw or "true" size. Jeff