Re: [PATCH] PAGE_SIZE IO for RAW (RAW VARY)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:58:05 +0000 (GMT)


> If it is not reasonable to fix all the brokern drivers,
> how about making this configurable (to do variable size IO) ?
> Do you favour this solution ?

We have hardware that requires aligned power of two for writes (ie 4K on
4K boundaries only). The 3ware is one example Jeff Merkey found
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