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From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: "Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	"Dainius Masiliūnas" <pastas4@gmail.com>,
	"SCSI development list" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"USB list" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Tom Yan" <tom.ty89@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Advanced Format SAT devices show incorrect physical block size
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:33:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170111133317.GA31565@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484086345.2518.9.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Tuesday 10 January 2017 14:12:25 James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 16:00 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > In theory, I suppose we could change the kernel so that it would 
> > default to READ CAPACITY(16) for devices that report a SCSI level >= 
> > 3, or something along those lines.  In general we hesitate to make
> > changes of this sort, because they almost always end up breaking 
> > _some_ devices -- and if that happens then the change is reverted, 
> > with no exceptions.  Linus has a very strict rule about not breaking 
> > working systems.
> 
> You shouldn't have to change anything: it already does (otherwise how
> else would we detect physical exponent for proper SCSI devices) see
> sd.c:sd_try_rc16_first().  It always returns false for USB because you
> set sdev->try_rc_10_first

So.. what does it mean? Can we enable READ CAPACITY(16) for some USB
devices?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201701102031.42361@pali>
2017-01-10 20:02 ` Advanced Format SAT devices show incorrect physical block size Alan Stern
2017-01-10 20:09   ` Dainius Masiliūnas
2017-01-10 20:29     ` Alan Stern
2017-01-10 20:44       ` Dainius Masiliūnas
     [not found]         ` <CABhjJhOp1GB0KXupWhDh-5v-+6N8=qA=rE9L21AANhdN5C0Bxg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-10 21:00           ` Alan Stern
2017-01-10 21:42             ` Dainius Masiliūnas
2017-01-11 14:54               ` Alan Stern
     [not found]             ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1701101551591.2462-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-10 22:12               ` James Bottomley
2017-01-11 13:33                 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2017-01-11 15:23                 ` Alan Stern
2017-01-29 17:18                   ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-30 16:17                     ` Alan Stern
     [not found]                       ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1701301055100.2025-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-30 17:43                         ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-23  9:03                           ` Pali Rohár
     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1701101520510.2462-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-11 13:36         ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-11 15:10           ` Alan Stern
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1701101457390.2462-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-10 20:12     ` Pali Rohár

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