[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] ps3rom: sector size should be 512 bytes

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 18:41 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > James, do you have any comment about the first email in this thread, increasing
> > scsi_host_template.max_sectors?
> 
> Assuming your BOUNCE_SIZE is in bytes, and represents your largest
> transfer, then yes, setting .max_sectors to BOUNCE_SIZE>>9 is exactly
> the right way of phrasing this, since .max_sectors is counted in units
> of the internal block sector (or 512 bytes).

OK, thanks for the confirmation!

> Were you going to submit a full patch to linux-scsi?

Yes I will.

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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