From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Linton Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/4] Encapsulate scsi_do_report_luns Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:42:24 -0600 Message-ID: <5138D180.4010909@tributary.com> References: <1362663515-3476-1-git-send-email-revers@redhat.com> <1362663515-3476-2-git-send-email-revers@redhat.com> <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B402950DA726C@G9W0745.americas.hpqcorp.net> <5138BB1F.9080904@tributary.com> <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B402950DA733C@G9W0745.americas.hpqcorp.net> <1362677438.9043.6.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay.ihostexchange.net ([66.46.182.52]:17692 "EHLO relay.ihostexchange.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756001Ab3CGRmc (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Mar 2013 12:42:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1362677438.9043.6.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" , Rob Evers , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "michaelc@cs.wisc.edu" , "bvanassche@acm.org" , "emilne@redhat.com" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/7/2013 11:30 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > This also means we can't go through the linux SCSI subsystem changing > behaviour based on what SAM says the behaviour should be. Most of what the > SCSI subsystem does is an accumulation based on years of trying to fix it > for annoying and out of spec devices. Well, I wasn't suggesting removing the retries for this patch, cause yes there are a lot of non complaint devices, but I was complaining about a case where there are known problems with the way the code is executing on non broken devices. Basically, prioritizing the functionality of a broken device, of the functionality of a working one. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRONGAAAoJEL5i86xrzcy7a6QH/16EQyMQ3DzLrX2a3OdtSD4Q QdHInok1SAyGKDGHTHXGu0RKuvpzgdSLjORKfEdbok/ZyNXd7qSi57czRV7R5U4b nTLoaP8maXxJsJ1ko11sTEfZNT4cgO4+hLMjcZk9LBJZhNC+WqsszYaOVVLFtSIJ xpBaowSjxLpkhi5cTdZ6p4+Tr2xgZxBXd+5NUZuB1s6ZJ99yNYcn97Q/3VVeFmW9 sprBP3kkiWv3LOIN6ZNTkKRDtgJYzf2LVTogjtNfCQsB/ZUHr5ITzZ1fMBkVrR7c yVe4kdq26RDC57oSJMqAHA8QXBQ2ll8l8fz1X1mebb2TeyOI57/U8ZbPyfGvzxo= =yZvD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----