On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mike Christie wrote: > Alternatively, if we do start not checking values like max sectors and > send requests down to the drivers, the block layer mapping functions can > be modified to not check certain values and LLDs/scsi-ml can return > these BLKERR values all the way up to sg/bsg/scsi_ioctl.c for values > that they need to check. I bet in many cases the LLD depends on the higher layers to filter out transfers that are too large. Duplicating all those tests in all the LLDs seems like a waste. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
