On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:05:21PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Joris van Rantwijk wrote:
> 
> > Can we somehow make the max_sectors limit automatic for this device?
> > There is already a hack in scsiglue.c for Genesys devices; I could
> > easily add my device there. Or we could generalise this hack by
> > adding a max_sectors field to the UNUSUAL_DEV macro. I will try this
> > and you can decide whether you like it ...
> 
> Maybe; it's up to Matt Dharm to decide about such things.
> 
> However it is possible to to achieve the same effect without changing the 
> kernel at all, by adding or modifying an appropriate hotplug script.  It 
> wouldn't be a bad idea to do this for the Genesys devices too.

We should take this idea to the linux-hotplug lists and see if we can get
their help.  I'd rather push more of this off onto userspace.

Matt

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