From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:51:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mwp5frdl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F67959.2060803@fastmail.fm> <87fvuxdqes.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F80167.1080004@fastmail.fm> <51F94E8D.5040908@fastmail.fm> <51F95A2E.60805@fastmail.fm> <51FA71E2.6010501@fastmail.fm> <871u5b7azv.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <20130831015337.GA8164@kroah.com> <87d2ot1w27.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <52238A33.7020703@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:39181 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936Ab3ITWvq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:51:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <52238A33.7020703@fastmail.fm> (Bernd Schubert's message of "Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:40:51 +0200") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Bernd Schubert Cc: Nix , Greg KH , "Martin K. Petersen" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, nick.cheng@areca.com.tw, stable@vger.kernel.org, Douglas Gilbert , "James E.J. Bottomley" >>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert writes: [Sorry about the delay. Catching up on a couple of weeks worth of email] Bernd> So if anything else than a Seagate drive is connected to an Areca Bernd> controller with older firmware it will still fail. It's just blacklisting a specific Seagate drive. However, skip_vpd_pages is also set by USB. I'm still completely in favor of your patch to reduce the VPD buffer size. Please resubmit and feel free to add my Acked-by:. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering