Re: libata/PATA: GPCMD_SET_STREAMING via SG_IO does nothing

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Sebastian Kemper wrote:
>>> Hi Mark!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>>>> Ahh.. got it.  The host_status returned (not checked by that code) was 7,
>>>> which means "host error".
>>>>
>>>> In this case, that's because the cmd_len is (16), which is too large for 
>>>> ATAPI.
>>>> It needs to be changed to (12) instead.
>>> I don't understand. You seem to use a cmd_len of 16 in hdparm yourself.
>> ..
>>
>> Really?  Where?
>>
>>
>>> And why does it work with the "old" ATA driver and not with libata if
>>> 16 is too large for ATAPI in general?
>> ..
>>
>> Now that *is* the question.
>> And the answer appears to be that ide-cd.c ignores the passed-in cmd_len,
>> and replaces it with:
>>
>>    cmd_len = COMMAND_SIZE(rq->cmd[0]);
>>
>> That's a SCSI macro to calculate the correct cmd_len based on the SCSI opcode,
>> which is very appropriate here.   We should do that too (we don't) in libata.
>>
>> But not exactly as IDE does it -- that's actually a bug:  the code needs to also
>> check that the new cmd_len is no larger than the original, or we'll get an Oops.
>>
>> I'll cook up a patch for that shortly and try it before posting it here.
> 
> Could you please also fix ide-cd while at it?
..

ide-cd already does the COMMAND_SIZE() thingie, so that fix is not needed.

The only bug there is that it doesn't check for the possibility
of a 16-byte opcode being issued with only a 12-byte CDB underneath.
In practice, this doesn't seem to hurt anything.

I'm no longer familiar enough with the code there to reliably fix it.

Cheers