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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 67/95] UAS: Revert commit 3ae62a42090f ("UAS: fix
 alignment of scatter/gather segments")
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:33:41 +0100
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Am Montag, den 04.11.2019, 22:45 +0100 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> There is no longer any reason to keep the virt_boundary_mask setting
> in the uas driver.  It was needed in the first place only for
> handling devices with a block size smaller than the maxpacket size and
> where the host controller was not capable of fully general
> scatter-gather operation (that is, able to merge two SG segments into
> a single USB packet).  But:
> 
>         High-speed or slower connections never use a bulk maxpacket
>         value larger than 512;
> 
>         The SCSI layer does not handle block devices with a block size
>         smaller than 512 bytes;
> 
>         All the host controllers capable of SuperSpeed operation can
>         handle fully general SG;
> 
>         Since commit ea44d190764b ("usbip: Implement SG support to
>         vhci-hcd and stub driver") was merged, the USB/IP driver can
>         also handle SG.

Hi,

same story as in 4.4.x, I am afraid.

	Regards
		Oliver