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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:20:14 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XXXminpys question
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970130102014.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <32EFE3F5.237C228A@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Jan 29, 1997 15:57:41 -0800
References:  <XFMail.970129132302.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> <Mutt.19970129222900.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32EFE3F5.237C228A@whistle.com>

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As Julian Elischer wrote:

> > The SCSI minphys routines seem to be called _in addition_ to the
> > physio(9) minphys handling, to make the mess complete (once per call
> > to scsi_strategy(), in sys/scsi/scsi_driver.c).
> 
> exactly..
> the adapter or device might have more restrictions than 
> hte rest of the kernel, so they need a say.

The adapters _are_ the reason for a minphys, so there should only be
one at all.  We should probably add it to the cdevsw entries.  It can
default to minphys (64 KB).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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