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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: vpd pages are mandatory for SPC-2
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:28:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E7B9AA.3020302@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq137rshbrr.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 03/15/2016 12:37 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> writes:
> 
> Hannes,
> 
> Hannes> VPD pages 0x0 and 0x83 are mandatory even for SPC-2, so we
> Hannes> should be lowering the restriction to avoid having to whitelist
> Hannes> every SPC-2 compliant device.
> 
> I wonder how many non-compliant devices we would have to blacklist as a
> result of this change...
> 
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.

Cheers,

Hannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-11 13:46 [PATCH] scsi: vpd pages are mandatory for SPC-2 Hannes Reinecke
2016-03-14 23:37 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-03-15  7:28   ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2016-03-15  7:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-15 17:19       ` Douglas Gilbert
2016-03-16  8:12         ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-03-15 21:36     ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-03-16  7:38       ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-03-16  7:47         ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-03-23 21:02 ` Martin K. Petersen

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