On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Stefan Fritsch <s...@sfritsch.de> wrote:
>
> On Monday 01 September 2014 22:24:16, David Gwynne wrote:
> > > i haven't found a controller that does less than MAXPHYS.
> > > perhaps they meant to improve the situation but stopped short.
> >
> > if we wanted to raise MAXPHYS, we'd have to support older
> > controllers that cant do greater than 64k with some mechanism.
>
> So the summary of this thread is that
>
> - drivers have to support 64K transfers
> - the minphys mechanism is useless at the moment

Useless?  It works just fine for physio, which is what it was designed for, no?


>
> Not quite what I hoped, but ok. Do you know a good place where this
> should be documented?

minphys is currently documented on physio(9)


Philip Guenther

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