Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:49:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:49:35 -0500 Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com ([12.107.208.154]:31216 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:49:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:49:19 -0500 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, andrea@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (RAW VARY) Message-ID: <20020109144919.E12609@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20020109132148.C12609@redhat.com> <200201091928.g09JSdH23535@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200201091928.g09JSdH23535@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>; from pbadari@us.ibm.com on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:28:39AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:28:39AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Ben, > > By any chance do you have a list of drivers that assume this ? > What does it take to fix them ? No, doing the audit *is* the hard work in creating a patch like this. > If it is not reasonable to fix all the brokern drivers, > how about making this configurable (to do variable size IO) ? > Do you favour this solution ? How does that solve anything? There is no way for a user to be even remotely confident that enabling the option will not corrupt data. As a distributor, that makes it impossible to enable. As a developer, that's just unsound practice. -ben -- Blue. - 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/