Re: [PATCH 1/2] cciss: Fix scsi tape io with more than 255 scattergather elements

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Mar 22 2012 - 16:34:09 EST


On 2012-03-22 19:08, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
> From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The total number of scatter gather elements in the CISS command
> used by the scsi tape code was being cast to a u8, which can hold
> at most 255 scatter gather elements. It should have been cast to
> a u16. Without this patch the command gets rejected by the controller
> since the total scatter gather count did not add up to the right
> value resulting in an i/o error.

Thanks Stephen, applied both patches.

--
Jens Axboe

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