Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2003-09-20 at 23:22, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Is that an error and change in behaviour ?
> 
> 
> No and yes.  :)
> 
> Current sg breaks the Unix model of write(2)... you shouldn't error out 
> if the queue will "probably" become available again.

Thats what I thought - because apps want to know if the queue is full
when doing raw scsi work some of the time. Would the change break any
known apps - if not it seems fine (providing O_NDELAY is supported)

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