On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Matthew Dharm wrote: > Ugh. Is there no way to convince the SCSI people to add an autosense > request size field to the SRB? This question belongs on the linux-scsi list (CC'ed). Unless I'm mistaken, this feature would require a modification to the block layer's struct request, since that is how all I/O requests are sent to the SCSI core. Perhaps Jens Axboe would be open to such modifications and perhaps not -- struct request is already pretty big. > History has told us that doing much of anything based on cmnd[0] is a > good way to get bitten very badly... Agreed. Alan Stern - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
