On Wed, Nov 23 2005, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm hacking on ide-cd.c and I've noticed that some old code
> (PIO handing for read fs requests) still supports unaligned access:
I think that can safely die, that code even predates me maintaining it.
It's a bug to receive a request that's not hardsector aligned. It used
to be a problem with eg hfs cds, since they use 512b sectors. But the
caching should take care of it for us, it's definitely not driver
business.
So rip it!
--
Jens Axboe
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