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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/4] scsi: Export blacklist flags to sysfs
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:43:33 -0400
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Hannes,

> Each scsi device is scanned according to the found blacklist flags,
> but this information is never presented to sysfs.  This makes it quite
> hard to figure out if blacklisting worked as expected.  With this
> patch we're exporting an additional attribute 'blacklist' containing
> the blacklist flags for this device.

There have been changes to the blacklist values over the years so I'm
not so keen on exporting them as a numbers.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering