This patch enables clustering and sets max_sectors to 0xffff to enable reading and writing of large blocks with tapes (and large transfers with sg). This change is needed after the sg and st drivers started using chained bios through scsi_request_async() in 2.6.16. Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) 1c573ec4648b4b4ddadcbd1945a9a608977df513 diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c index e48409e..2c4e5f1 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c @@ -1870,7 +1870,8 @@ static struct scsi_host_template sym2_te .eh_bus_reset_handler = sym53c8xx_eh_bus_reset_handler, .eh_host_reset_handler = sym53c8xx_eh_host_reset_handler, .this_id = 7, - .use_clustering = DISABLE_CLUSTERING, + .use_clustering = ENABLE_CLUSTERING, + .max_sectors = 0xFFFF, #ifdef SYM_LINUX_PROC_INFO_SUPPORT .proc_info = sym53c8xx_proc_info, .proc_name = NAME53C8XX, -- 1.2.4.g375a5 - : 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
