Package: linux-2.6
Severity: normal

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Debian is deviating from the upstream default for CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE
This confuses users and makes upstream bug reporting more difficult
than necessary.  Ref http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/64136

I assume this difference never was intentional, but was caused by an 
unnoticed upstream change of default (default == max and max was increased):


commit 5f5affddad836978f057d316ba8083a5d553773c
Author: Moore, Eric Dean  <eric.mo...@lsil.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 22 18:00:52 2005 -0400

    [SCSI] mptfusion: Kconfig Adding new bus type drivers for fusion drivers.
    
    (1) Kconfig - added new mptspi and mptfc scsi lld drivers
    (2) Kconfig - increased MAX_SGE from 40 to 128
    (2) Makefile - compilation support for split drivers
    (3) Makefile - cleaned up debug defines; e.g. removed obsolete, added others
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <eric.mo...@lsil.com>
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@steeleye.com>

diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig b/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
index 452418b..2d5a76f 100644
- --- a/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig
[..]
 config FUSION_MAX_SGE
        int "Maximum number of scatter gather entries"
- -       depends on FUSION
- -       default "40"
+       depends on FUSION_SPI || FUSION_FC
+       default "128"
        help
          This option allows you to specify the maximum number of scatter-



Bjørn

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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