on patch "[SCSI] relax scsi dma alignment"

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On commit 465ff3185e0cb76d46137335a4d21d0d9d3ac8a2:
> This patch relaxes the default SCSI DMA alignment from 512 bytes to 4
> bytes.  I remember from previous discussions that usb and firewire have
> sector size alignment requirements, so I upped their alignments in the
> respective slave allocs.
[...]
>  drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c      |    5 ++++-
>  drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c     |    6 ++++++
>  drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c        |    6 ++++++
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c        |    8 ++++++++
>  drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
>  5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

No, FireWire only requires 4 bytes alignment.

I will channel a reversion of the firewire and ieee1394 hunks through
linux1394-2.6.git for 2.6.26.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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