Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Matthias Andree wrote: > >>Please make up your mind if you want regressions reported and removed >>before release or if you want 2.6.16 to be an experimental release. > > > The _one_ regression that was reported already has a fix. > > As far as I can tell, the rest of the thread has been _whining_. Well thanks for the characterization as a whiner. I may not follow the party line but I try not to resort to name calling. Do you want dissenters around or do you think that it is fine to impose block subsystem rules on non block drivers? Yes, I have been told the block subsystem is generic, if so why does it enforce concepts like max_sectors ? > Guys, what's so hard with just raising the limits on the common SG_IO > thing (the same way people had to raise the limits on the _old_ sg-only > thing), instead of whining about it? ... and I believe that is the correct solution and what, I believe, Mike Christie who is the author of "st/sg scatter gather list merge" change wants to do. But since the requirement has just come up, it is unlikely that code code be produced it time for lk 2.6.16 . - : 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
