Re: DELL Universal Xport no attach blacklist

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 10:11 -0400, Thomas Witzel wrote:
> I have been getting tons of Buffer I/O errors on the Universal Xport
> devices of my DELL MD3000. This can be managed by not attaching
> them....
> Can you please add the DELL Universal Xport to the no attach list in
> scsi_devinfo.c ? I'm not sure how to submit a patch because I don't
> know which version of the kernel the patch should be against, but I
> know its not yet in the newest Linus kernel. I want this line added
> please,
> 
> --- scsi-git/scsi_devinfo.c     2009-03-31 10:54:00.000000000 -0400
> +++ scsi/scsi_devinfo.c 2009-06-13 10:08:46.000000000 -0400
> @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@
>         {"SGI", "Universal Xport", "*", BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH},
>         {"IBM", "Universal Xport", "*", BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH},
>         {"SUN", "Universal Xport", "*", BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH},
> +       {"DELL", "Universal Xport", "*", BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH},
>         {"SMSC", "USB 2 HS-CF", NULL, BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_INQUIRY_36},
>         {"SONY", "CD-ROM CDU-8001", NULL, BLIST_BORKEN},
>         {"SONY", "TSL", NULL, BLIST_FORCELUN},          /* DDS3 & DDS4
> autoloaders */

I'll add it via cut and paste.

For future reference, you can submit the patch yourself too if you
follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches.  The only real problem with the
above is that there's no signoff line, it's not tree relative and your
mailer seems to have converted tabs to spaces (we have a separate file
Documentation/email-clients.txt to try to address this, but it's not
comprehensive, there being more broken email clients out there than we
can document fixes for).

James