Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750767AbWCAS2r (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:28:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750857AbWCAS2r (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:28:47 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:31654 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778AbWCAS2q (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:28:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:28:31 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Matthias Andree cc: Douglas Gilbert , Mark Rustad , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5 In-Reply-To: <20060301083824.GA9871@merlin.emma.line.org> Message-ID: References: <4404AA2A.5010703@torque.net> <20060301083824.GA9871@merlin.emma.line.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 22 On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > > You can stop right there with the 1 MB reads. Welcome > > to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many > > size shortcomings with the block subsystem. > > What is the reason to break user-space applications like this? Did you read the whole thread? It was a low-level SCSI driver issue, where nothing broke user space, but the command was just fed to the drive differently, which then hit a limit in the driver. Linus - 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/