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DateWed, 9 Jan 2002 13:21:48 -0500
FromBenjamin LaHaise <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (RAW VARY)
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:12:11AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> why ? could you explain ? I am not expecting that user buffer be aligned
> to PAGE_SIZE.

Okay, that part I misread from the message, but that leaves the question of 
"does it work?"  Iirc, Jeff Merkey tested variable sized ios with nwfs, but 
found that triggered bugs in the low level drivers, some of which assume that 
all buffer heads within a request have the same block size.  Given that 
concern, I really don't think this is a safe 2.4 patch.

		-ben
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