Re: [PATCH v5] scsi: sd: Ignore command SYNC CACHE error if format in progress

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 8/20/24 01:59, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 8/19/24 2:09 AM, Yihang Li wrote:
>> +			if ((sshdr.asc == 0x04 && sshdr.ascq == 0x04) ||
> 
> Shouldn't symbolic names be introduced for these numeric constants?
> Although there is more code in the SCSI core that compares ASC / ASCQ
> values with numeric constants, I think we need symbolic names for these
> constants to make code like the above easier to read. There is already
> a header file for definitions that come directly from the SCSI standard
> and that is used by both SCSI initiator and SCSI target code:
> <scsi/scsi_proto.h>.

That would be *a lot* to define... So in keeping with the current practice of
using numerical values + comment documenting what the values are, it is why I
suggested the comment change above this also as the asc/ascq names for this are
added. It would be odd to have macros for just this asc/ascq here with so many
other places using numerical values...

Note: I personally find https://www.t10.org/lists/1spc-lst.htm more than enough
to work with the scsi code. If we have to define macros for all this, that would
be a lot of lines...

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research