Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5

[Mark Lord]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > > You can stop right there with the 1 MB reads. Welcome
> > > to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many
> > > size shortcomings with the block subsystem.
> > What is the reason to break user-space applications like this?
>
> Did you read the whole thread? It was a low-level SCSI driver issue, where 
> nothing broke user space, but the command was just fed to the drive 
> differently, which then hit a limit in the driver.

Will this break major applications like CD/DVD rippers,
DVD players, etc.. which read LARGE blocks at a time?

If not, then good!
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