From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove MULTI_LUN config option
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:21:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030903142117.A5715@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030902021145.GC1941@krispykreme>; from anton@samba.org on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:11:45PM +1000
Anton -
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:11:45PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We already have a module_param to limit how many LUNs we scan, so I
> think we can remove the config option. It means one less config option
> to worry about.
>
> Anton
>
> diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c Tue Sep 2 10:20:06 2003
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c Tue Sep 2 10:20:06 2003
> @@ -68,11 +68,7 @@
>
> #define MAX_SCSI_LUNS 512
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN
> static unsigned int max_scsi_luns = MAX_SCSI_LUNS;
> -#else
> -static unsigned int max_scsi_luns = 1;
> -#endif
The above defaulted to 1 because there are broken devices (unknown what
vendors and models) that hang when anything other than LUN 0 is probed.
Defaulting to 1 means such systems might no longer boot.
There was a post from Alan (or Doug L?) about this some time back.
-- Patrick Mansfield
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-03 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 2:11 [PATCH] remove MULTI_LUN config option Anton Blanchard
2003-09-02 2:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-02 18:20 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-03 21:21 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
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