Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote:

> You can stop right there with the 1 MB reads. Welcome
> to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many
> size shortcomings with the block subsystem.

What is the reason to break user-space applications like this?

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