Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/7] Open-iSCSI/Linux-iSCSI-5 High-Performance Initiator

[Patrick McHardy]

David S. Miller wrote:
> From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:23:20 -0500
>
> > Actually, I saw this and increased MAX_LINKS as well.
>
> That does absolutely nothing, you cannot create sockets
> with protocol numbers larger than NPROTOS which like MAX_LINKS
> has the value 32.  And NPROTOS is something we cannot change.

I couldn't find any relationship between MAX_LINKS and NPROTO. NPROTO is
the maximum number of protocol families, the only limitation for
MAX_LINKS seems to be the size of sk_protocol which is an unsigned char.
So I think we can safely increase it.
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