Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750733AbVJFFSZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 01:18:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751230AbVJFFSZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 01:18:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.cdacindia.com ([203.199.132.35]:48536 "HELO mailx.cdac.ernet.in") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750733AbVJFFSY (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 01:18:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4344AA81.2020304@cdac.in> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:09:29 +0530 From: Karthik Sarangan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Using DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O -> max_sectors References: <434288E9.3090108@cdac.in> <1128436401.2922.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <43437163.1020201@cdac.in> <1128500135.2920.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4343A046.1090605@cdac.in> <1128507966.2920.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1128507966.2920.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 575 Lines: 13 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > no it's a property of the hardware and as such the DRIVER has to set it. > Not all hw can deal with really big sizes, so the driver is supposed to > set what the hw is capable of. > so I need to send some ioctl to the driver to set the transfer size or find something in the /proc/scsi area, isn't it? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/