Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757858AbZDKT5z (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:57:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754519AbZDKT5m (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:57:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42215 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757834AbZDKT5l (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:57:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:52:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Alan Cox cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux IDE mailing list , LKML , Jens Axboe , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI... In-Reply-To: <20090411203246.513a0892@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <49E0D47B.9070205@garzik.org> <20090411203246.513a0892@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 26 On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > > > The spec describes the sector size as > > "512, 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, etc." It will be interesting to reach > > "etc" territory. > > Over 4K will be fun. And by "fun", you mean "irrelevant". If anybody does that, they'll simply not work. And it's not worth it even trying to handle it. That said, I'm pretty certain Windows has the same 4k issue, so we can hope nobody will ever do that kind of idiotically broken hardware. Of course, hardware people often do incredibly stupid things, so no guarantees. 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/