> > Oh we have scores of these hacks around. Look at the dvd/cd layer. The 
> > point is to get rid of those.
> 
> Perhaps this is just a matter of cleaning them up so they are no
> longer hacks?

CD and DVD media support various non power-of-two block sizes. Supporting
more block sizes would also be useful as we could then read older smart
media (256byte/sector) without the SCSI layer objecting and the like.

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