Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750775AbWCASbz (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:31:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750813AbWCASbz (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:31:55 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:60854 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750775AbWCASby (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:31:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4405E8AA.1090803@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:32:10 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthias Andree , Douglas Gilbert , Mark Rustad , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5 References: <4404AA2A.5010703@torque.net> <20060301083824.GA9871@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 23 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. Will this break major applications like CD/DVD rippers, DVD players, etc.. which read LARGE blocks at a time? If not, then good! - 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/