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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: vpd pages are mandatory for SPC-2
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:42:32 +0100
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To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 08:28:42AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> 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.

It's the idea, but it has to prove workable as well in the end.

That being said I'd prefer to allow Hannes patch in and see what
the fallout is.