Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu/hw ide.c

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Feb 19 2007, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > > Why is nsector uint32_t to begin with?
> > > > 
> > > > Because nobody sent a patch to fix it, I figure.
> > > 
> > > Actually I seem to recall it's because it's being overloaded for
> > > requests that are > 256 sectors. It would be a good cleanup to get rid
> > > of that an turn nsector into a proper uint8_t.
> > 
> > It appears to use 16k bits in some cases. I won't fiddle with it myself
> 
> 16bits, or 64k, that is.

Yeah, it's for larger requests. It would be nice to track elsewhere,
though. I'll take a look at it.

-- 
Jens Axboe