Bug#606096: linux-2.6: Please reset CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE to upstream default
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: normal
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Debian is deviating from the upstream default for CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE
This confuses users and makes upstream bug reporting more difficult
than necessary. Ref http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/64136
I assume this difference never was intentional, but was caused by an
unnoticed upstream change of default (default == max and max was increased):
commit 5f5affddad836978f057d316ba8083a5d553773c
Author: Moore, Eric Dean <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Date: Fri Apr 22 18:00:52 2005 -0400
[SCSI] mptfusion: Kconfig Adding new bus type drivers for fusion drivers.
(1) Kconfig - added new mptspi and mptfc scsi lld drivers
(2) Kconfig - increased MAX_SGE from 40 to 128
(2) Makefile - compilation support for split drivers
(3) Makefile - cleaned up debug defines; e.g. removed obsolete, added others
Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig b/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
index 452418b..2d5a76f 100644
- --- a/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
[..]
config FUSION_MAX_SGE
int "Maximum number of scatter gather entries"
- - depends on FUSION
- - default "40"
+ depends on FUSION_SPI || FUSION_FC
+ default "128"
help
This option allows you to specify the maximum number of scatter-
Bjørn
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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