Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:49:19 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (RAW VARY) |
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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.
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