Re: [PARPORT] Re: linux-2.4.2 pd.c patch - driver was untested??? (this patch too, I have no PARIDE HW ;-( )

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 07:27:05 EDT

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> > confused max_segments with max_sectors. In result driver built
> > clustered ATA requests exceeding the maximum of 256 sectors. My
> > driver failed on that error, and I fixed this confusing (after
> > reading 2.4. ll_rw_blk.c). (May be pd.c has some features, that
> > prevent it failing on this bug, but I think such confuse should be
> > fixed anyway ;-) )
>
> I don't really know that code well enough to comment. Andrea?

Some ide drives treat a count of zero (256) as zero... so a max sized I/O
does nothing

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