On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 08:09:51AM +0100, Harald Koerfgen wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation, Thomas. That's what I assumed when seeing
> that hard drives seem to work, but what about more character oriented
> SCSI devices? Scanners and tapes come to mind.
I have to correct myself. Even for disk io you will see allocations smaller
than 1k/4k. I've noticed that while debugging the dvma code for my Sun 3/80.
I guess the only assumption, which is still true for kernel only use is the
aligned. But I can think of a bad program, which uses scsi generic devices
and doesn't align scsi commands and data.
Thomas.
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This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-|
It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^)
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