Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Once you are done with the implementation details, could you tell me what you
decided to add for the final implementation?
Jörg
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