Re: [PATCH 1/2] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity()

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:29:36PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:20 -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > +#define RC16_LEN 13
> 
> Shouldn't this be 32, the defined length of a READ CAPACITY 16 return?
> 
> In theory asking for less is fine, since the spec allows it, but it's
> setting a trap for expanded users of READ_CAPACITY 16 since they might
> blindly use a buffer[13] or beyond, not realising we didn't actually ask
> for data beyond buffer[12].

I'm perfectly fine with expanding it to 16 or even 32.  Want me to
repost the patch, or will you fix it up?

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
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