Linda Xie ever so gently pointed out that she had a patch to preserve compatibility with older SLES targets, and I told her we didn't need to push it to mainline. This patch explicitly checks the version of the IBMVSCSI target and ensures that large scatterlists are not sent to older targets. Andrew, while this stuff usually goes through James, it would probably make Serge happier if you could pick it up for the next mm. Signed-off-by: Linda Xie <lxie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <boutcher@xxxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.13-mm3-orig/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c 2005-09-13 09:50:31.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.13.1/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c 2005-09-13 09:09:41.000000000 -0500 @@ -727,6 +727,16 @@ if (hostdata->madapter_info.port_max_txu[0]) hostdata->host->max_sectors = hostdata->madapter_info.port_max_txu[0] >> 9; + + if (hostdata->madapter_info.os_type == 3 && + strcmp(hostdata->madapter_info.srp_version, "1.6a") <= 0) { + printk("ibmvscsi: host (Ver. %s) doesn't support large" + "transfers\n", + hostdata->madapter_info.srp_version); + printk("ibmvscsi: limiting scatterlists to %d\n", + MAX_INDIRECT_BUFS); + hostdata->host->sg_tablesize = MAX_INDIRECT_BUFS; + } } } - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html