On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:39 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: [...] > Then there's no need for anything at all in SCSI ... and it becomes a > whole lot more obvious how to do legacy ide (if we ever get problems > there). The block device set_capacity() interface is already defined and was implemented for the IDE disk driver some time ago. The purpose of Tejun's work on sd and libata is to implement this existing interface and so avoid a regression when users switch from IDE to libata-based drivers. I don't see why he should have to replace the interface as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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