(in)appropriate uses for MAXBSIZE
Andriy Gapon
avg at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 9 09:35:05 UTC 2010
on 09/04/2010 12:25 Hans Petter Selasky said the following:
> On Friday 09 April 2010 10:18:37 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> As you know MAXBSIZE is currently defined to 64K (seems to a popular value
>> for constants). There is the following comment for this parameter and its
>> value:
>>
>
>> Feedback welcome.
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Some hardware will break if you do more than 64K at a time. Especially USB
> memory sticks.
I know, but I am not sure what your point is.
The drivers should use appropriate limits for their hardware.
MAXBSIZE is not related to hardware.
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Andriy Gapon
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