[TRIVIAL] Re: Kernel patches...

From: Rusty Trivial Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 22:45:59 EST


From: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>

>Yes agreed, a hdX=multilun is what I'm after.
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>>This works for me, no dice on getting me to bite on this whopper.
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>I'm sure woody will supply such a patch :)
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  OK, so here is the new patch.
  It takes advantage of hdXlun, so no changes to the config files are needed.
  By default keeps IDE LUN at zero, unless hdXlun=n specified on command line.
  Compiles with 2.4.20.
  
  Thanks, Woody
  

--- trivial-2.5-bk/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c.orig 2002-12-06 13:56:56.000000000 +1100
+++ trivial-2.5-bk/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c 2002-12-06 13:56:56.000000000 +1100
@@ -640,8 +640,17 @@
         if(host == NULL)
                 return 0;
                 
- for (id = 0; id < MAX_HWIFS * MAX_DRIVES && idescsi_drives[id]; id++)
- last_lun = IDE_MAX(last_lun, idescsi_drives[id]->last_lun);
+/*
+ * by default do not trust multiple LUN support on IDE devices.
+ * Too many broken IDE controllers respond to LUN != 0
+ * To reenable this feature, specify "hdxlun=n" on the command line.
+ */
+ for (id = 0; id < MAX_HWIFS * MAX_DRIVES && idescsi_drives[id]; id++) {
+ if (idescsi_drives[id]->forced_lun)
+ last_lun = IDE_MAX(last_lun, idescsi_drives[id]->last_lun);
+ else
+ last_lun = 0;
+ }
         host->max_id = id;
         host->max_lun = last_lun + 1;
         host->can_queue = host->cmd_per_lun * id;

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