Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:12:21 +1100 (AEDT) | From | Finn Thain <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] esp_scsi: Clear Transfer Count registers before PIO transfers |
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, I wrote:
> > But this is a theoretical problem so far. You may need to use sg_utils > to generate a SCSI command like that. > > (For a DMA controller subject to, say, 24-bit boundaries, there are > additional ways to end up with short transfers.) >
On reflection these probably can't happen in practice. I was being over-cautious. So I'll leave this patch out-of-tree until there's a need for it (i.e. some driver that uses both DMA and PIO in data phases).
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