On Wed, Feb 07 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I haven't seen this driver, but if it uses the SCSI layer instead
> > of being a "pure" block driver then I can see a slight problem
> > in that currently only understand max sg entry limits and not
> > total request sizes. I would rather fix this limitation then, and
> > would also be interested to know if any of the (older) SCSI drivers
> > have such limitations too.
>
> Yes, it's a SCSI driver, not a block driver. Adaptec thought it prudent to
> try to fix this in their driver rather than try to change the SCSI layer in
> 2.4.x just now. They expected it would be more difficult getting such a
> change through validation and into the kernel in a timely manner.
The changes are going to be really small and obvious. Which I bet
the driver changes won't :-). And as I said, if other drivers have
this limitation too then we need to do it anyway.
--
Jens Axboe
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