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From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
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Subject: Re: Urgent, Please respond - Re: max_scsi_luns and 2.4.19-pre10.
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:05:39PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 21:48, jw schultz wrote:
> > I'm no expert on this bit but look in
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c for CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN 
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN
> > static int max_scsi_luns = 8;
> > #else
> > static int max_scsi_luns = 1;
> > #endif
> 
> This is, but there seems to be something more fundamental here. I'm
> using the -aa patches, and the static int max_scsi_luns = 8; is actually
> static int max_scsi_luns = MAX_SCSI_LUNS;
> 
> where above is: #define MAX_SCSI_LUNS 0xFFFFFFFF; 
> but I'm not sure if this syntax is 0xFFFFFFFF == 8 or 2^n. 
>
> To me, it seems like 8. I'm using pre10-aa2, I'm going to try pre10-aa4
> as well, but if I must I'm going to hard-code the kernel bits I need I
> supposed to make static int max_scsi_luns = MAX_SCSI_LUNS; into static
> int max_scsi_luns = 16; to ensure it works at the level I need. 
> 

I don't have -aa but that is -1.  I would suggest a bit of
greping.

I seriously doubt changing it to 16 would cause data
corruption.  It will either work or not.  If it doesn't you
will crash on boot/init.


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