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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (RAW VARY)
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:28:39AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Ben,
>
> By any chance do you have a list of drivers that assume this ?
> What does it take to fix them ?

No, doing the audit *is* the hard work in creating a patch like this.

> If it is not reasonable to fix all the brokern drivers,
> how about making this configurable (to do variable size IO) ?
> Do you favour this solution ?

How does that solve anything? There is no way for a user to be even
remotely confident that enabling the option will not corrupt data. As
a distributor, that makes it impossible to enable. As a developer,
that's just unsound practice.

-ben
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