Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:32:10 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5 |
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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. Welcome >>> to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many >>> size shortcomings with the block subsystem. >> What is the reason to break user-space applications like this? > > 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?
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