No, doing the audit *is* the hard work in creating a patch like this.
> If it is not reasonable to fix all the brokern drivers,
> how about making this configurable (to do variable size IO) ?
> Do you favour this solution ?
How does that solve anything? There is no way for a user to be even
remotely confident that enabling the option will not corrupt data. As
a distributor, that makes it impossible to enable. As a developer,
that's just unsound practice.
-ben
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