Re: [PATCH] block: separate out padding from alignment

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On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:10 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Block layer alignment was used for two different purposes - memory
> alignment and padding.  This causes problems in lower layers because
> drivers which only require memory alignment ends up with adjusted
> rq->data_len.  Separate out padding such that padding occurs iff
> driver explicitly requests it.

This puts the libsas SMP handler back into a working state again.

Thanks,

James


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