From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761428AbYHERwn (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:52:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756194AbYHERw3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:52:29 -0400 Received: from ottawa-hs-64-26-148-84.d-ip.magma.ca ([64.26.148.84]:33991 "EHLO gonzo.int.wil.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755433AbYHERw2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:52:28 -0400 From: Matthew Wilcox To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, Matt_Domsch@dell.com Subject: LibATA support for long sectors Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:26:45 -0400 Message-Id: <1217957207-23116-1-git-send-email-matthew@wil.cx> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.6.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ATA-8 defines two different methods for increasing the length of sectors. Long Physical Sectors increase the native sector size of the disc while pretending to the OS that sectors are still 512 bytes. Long Logical Sectors increase the length of the reported sector. This patch series adds support for both. It does not add support for non-power-of-2 sector sizes as they have not been fully specified yet.