Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 May 2002 22:08:54 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 IDE 65 |
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:56:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > The other things which ll_rw_blk.c doesn't get right is the > > fact that the current merge functions don't respect hard sector > > sizes > > They aren't there to be respected by the ll_rw_blk layer - if some layer > above it has created a request larger than the hard sector size, THAT is > the problem, and there is nothing ll_rw_blk can do (except maybe BUG() on > it, but I don't think we've ever really seen those kinds of bugs).
Hum, I'm confused here - shouldn't that be "if some layer above it has created a request SMALLER than the hard sector size"? Or better a request that is not a multiple of hard sector size?
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