On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 01:09 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > This is done at slightly the wrong level. Capacity is actually a > > property of struct scsi_disk not struct scsi_device ... shouldn't > > alt_capacity be at the same level? > > Hmmm... I think that was my first try and then I moved it to sdev for > some reason I can't rememer now. I'll look into it again and try to > move it into sdev. Really one of the things I was wondering is why even scsi_disk ... capacity is in there, but it's also in gendisk, so I've thought (admittedly never translated it to action) that we could just remove the duplication in scsi_disk. This alt_capacity looks to be a pure ATA thing ... I can't find it in the SCSI specs and there doesn't seem to be a SAT equivalent of the commands. Ideally, what should be happening is that the ata ULD would issue the capacity commands and just set the block alt_capacity without having to worry about transporting the value up and down the stack. Matthew Wilcox thought we could begin an implementation of the ATA uld using the ATA_16 command to transport it through SCSI ... this might provide the good reason to begin that. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
