On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Mark Lord wrote:
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. WelcomeWhat is the reason to break user-space applications like this?
to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many
size shortcomings with the block subsystem.
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!
I wouldn't expect it to. Most people use ATA for that, and it tends to
have lower limits than most SCSI HBA's (well, at least the old PATA), so
the change - if any - should at most change some of the sg.c limits to be
no less than what SG_IO has had on ATA forever.
Not that I expect people to have a SCSI CD/DVD drive anyway in this day
and age, so the sg.c changes probably won't show up at all.