From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:04:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140718150406.GA29709@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq18unuwos2.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:49:17PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>
> Despite supporting modern SCSI features some storage devices continue to
> claim conformance to an older version of the SPC spec. This is done for
> compatibility with legacy operating systems.
>
> Linux by default will not attempt to read VPD pages on devices that
> claim SPC-2 or older. Introduce a blacklist flag that can be used to
> trigger VPD page inquiries on devices that are known to support them.
>
> Reported-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Tested-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
KY, can you send a hyperv patch that sets it to go along with this one?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-18 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-15 16:49 [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-18 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-07-18 15:06 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-07-21 17:28 ` KY Srinivasan
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