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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE TCQ #4
To: axboe@suse.de (Jens Axboe)
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> It sure is... sr doesn't do it and lots of others don't as well, so I
> suppose we could rip it out. We already require reblocking with loop in
> those cases anyway.

For the file system ones. It would be nice to be able to handle non power
of two block sizes as well through the block interface (even if it means we
hand back a 4K buffer that the caller is required to know is partly full).
That would remove a lot of special case magic for audio/video

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