On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 19:49 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> On commit 465ff3185e0cb76d46137335a4d21d0d9d3ac8a2:
> > This patch relaxes the default SCSI DMA alignment from 512 bytes to 4
> > bytes. I remember from previous discussions that usb and firewire have
> > sector size alignment requirements, so I upped their alignments in the
> > respective slave allocs.
> [...]
> > drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c |5 -
> > drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c |6 ++
> > drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c|6 ++
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c|8
> > drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c | 20 ++--
> > 5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> No, FireWire only requires 4 bytes alignment.
>
> I will channel a reversion of the firewire and ieee1394 hunks through
> linux1394-2.6.git for 2.6.26.
Don't revert, just put the numbers down to 4 (just in case someone
decides to lower the default SCSI alignment down from four ...).
James
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