From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: vpd pages are mandatory for SPC-2 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:28:42 +0100 Message-ID: <56E7B9AA.3020302@suse.de> References: <1457703965-71028-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53469 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752147AbcCOH2o (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2016 03:28:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley , Hannes Reinecke On 03/15/2016 12:37 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>> "Hannes" =3D=3D Hannes Reinecke writes: >=20 > Hannes, >=20 > Hannes> VPD pages 0x0 and 0x83 are mandatory even for SPC-2, so we > Hannes> should be lowering the restriction to avoid having to whiteli= st > Hannes> every SPC-2 compliant device. >=20 > I wonder how many non-compliant devices we would have to blacklist as= a > result of this change... >=20 But it feels even sillier having to whitelist every standards-conformant device here; I certainly was when I figured that EMC Clariion won't work properly without this patch. And the idea was to mark off _misbehaving_ drives, not the other way round. Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: F. Imend=F6rffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG N=FCrnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html