On 14 July 2016 at 01:03, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's used to device max_sectors. > Not really. "max_sectors" of ATA drives have been set to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS, for at least quite some time. > > This is way too gratuitous. There's no rationale for it while it has > actual real-world risks. max_sectors is staying at 65535. > That's alright. I don't have strong opinion on whether we should bump this anyway. So I suppose we should replace the TODO comment with something like "avoid count to be 0000h"? And maybe also change ATA_MAX_SECTORS to 255 (with comment "avoid count to be 00h")? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
