James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 23:46 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > I am afraid, you seem to missunderstand things.
> >
> > This parameter is not related to something you may call "block layer", it is
> > rather related to the low level SCSI transport. If the value is stored in a
> > higher layer, it is not stored in the layer where it belongs to.
> >
> > If you like to take care of clean interfaces, make sure that this parameter is
> > moved to the right place in the code.
>
> The patch Alan posted is returning the max_sectors count from the block
> layer, which is a block, not a SCSI parameter ... so what is it that you
> actually want?
Well, accept the patch if it works. And in case that you don't like it, make
sure that the _parameter_ is moved to where it belongs: to the low level
transport layer.
Jörg
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