Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 22:26:21 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: firewire: sbp2: document the absence of alignment requirements The SBP-2/3 specifications do not require any alignment of data buffers; only their own data structures need to be quadlet-aligned [SR: or octlet-aligned]. Fix the comments to reflect this, but leave the actual alignment at 32 bits to avoid theoretical problems with target implementations that might handle this incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter --- drivers/firewire/sbp2.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/firewire/sbp2.c +++ b/drivers/firewire/sbp2.c @@ -207,9 +207,8 @@ static const struct device *lu_dev(const #define SBP2_MAX_CDB_SIZE 16 /* - * The default maximum s/g segment size of a FireWire controller is - * usually 0x10000, but SBP-2 only allows 0xffff. Since buffers have to - * be quadlet-aligned, we set the length limit to 0xffff & ~3. + * The maximum SBP-2 data buffer size is 0xffff. We quadlet-align this + * for compatibility with earlier versions of this driver. */ #define SBP2_MAX_SEG_SIZE 0xfffc @@ -1530,7 +1529,10 @@ static int sbp2_scsi_slave_alloc(struct sdev->allow_restart = 1; - /* SBP-2 requires quadlet alignment of the data buffers. */ + /* + * SBP-2 does not require any alignment, but we set it anyway + * for compatibility with earlier versions of this driver. + */ blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(sdev->request_queue, 4 - 1); if (lu->tgt->workarounds & SBP2_WORKAROUND_INQUIRY_36)