On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 16:06 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> shost->max_lun is only ever useful when doing a sequential
> scan as we need to limit the number of devices to scan there.
> For report lun scan we should allow _any_ reported LUN number
> as long as the LLDD supports 64 bit LUNs.
> 
> So add a new flag 'support_64bit_luns' to the scsi host and
> modify report lun scan to not check for max_luns during
> scanning if that flag is set. This will get rid of the
> annoying 'lunXXXX has a LUN larger than allowed ...'
> message and allow scanning to continue.

What advantage does this have over setting max_lun to ~0?

Plus, if we're going to advertise 64 bit lun support I'd rather have us
be actually capable of it ... luns are handled as 32 bit numbers in the
mid layer currently.

James

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