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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 07:34:44 -0600
From:      "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        erich@lodgenet.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Scanner support 
Message-ID:  <199803111334.HAA00496@jake.lodgenet.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:26:58 %2B1100." <199803110126.MAA16949@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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Bruce Evans writes:
>>It's worked on an ncr 53860, and an adaptec 2940 with blocks of
>>64 bytes and 64k, maybe sizes too.  I'd kind of liked to put
>>some upper bound on len, rather than just using it, but this has
>>worked.
>
>See PR 5846.  b_kvasize should be 0, since the buffer doesn't have
>any kva.  Setting it to a large value here probably works because
>the value is never used except in the broken maxphys().

That makes sense. I got to maxphys(), which checked b_kvasize,
then choked. I (hackishly) set b_kvasize, where the rest of the
structure was filled, without really thinking about it.
Is it better to ignore b_kvasize in maxphys()? If so is it better
form, or more robust, or both?

>
>Bruce
>

Eric
-- 
Eric L. Hernes
erich@lodgenet.com
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