Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:11:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:11:05 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:44817 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:11:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3CBEB754.6010205@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:08:52 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE TCQ #4 In-Reply-To: <20020416200051.7ae38411.sebastian.droege@gmx.de> <20020416180914.GR1097@suse.de> <20020416204329.4c71102f.sebastian.droege@gmx.de> <3CBD28D1.6070702@evision-ventures.com> <20020417132852.4cf20276.sebastian.droege@gmx.de> <3CBD519F.7080207@evision-ventures.com> <20020418141746.2df4a948.sebastian.droege@gmx.de> <3CBEABEF.1030009@evision-ventures.com> <20020418125757.GF2492@suse.de> <3CBEB51F.90105@evision-ventures.com> <20020418130743.GH2492@suse.de> 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 Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >>Jens Axboe wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Apr 18 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: >>> >>> >>>>BTW> Jens: Do you have any idea what the "sector chaing" in ide-cd is >>>>good for?! I would love to just get rid of it alltogether! >>> >>> >>>Sector chaining? Are you talking about the cdrom_read_intr() comments? >> >>Sorry I did mean sector caching. > > > That's for padding/caching sub-frame sized reads. I tought the BIO layer did this alredy... Well it's a pain in the a** to deal with it. IDE-FLOPPY is passing packet commands through the request buffer but IDE-CD is passing them through request special field... argh! - 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/