[PATCH v2] scsi: core: Fix an incorrect comment

Bart Van Assche
2024-06-12T20:37:46Z

The comment that scsi_static_device_list would go away was added more
than 18 years ago. Today, that list is still there and a large number
of additional entries have been added. This shows that this comment is
incorrect. Hence fix that comment.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
---

Changes compared to v1: addressed Christoph's review feedback.

drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c
index a7071e71389e..90f1393a23f8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c
@@ -39,13 +39,12 @@ static LIST_HEAD(scsi_dev_info_list);
static char scsi_dev_flags[256];

/*
- * scsi_static_device_list: deprecated list of devices that require
- * settings that differ from the default, includes black-listed (broken)
- * devices. The entries here are added to the tail of scsi_dev_info_list
- * via scsi_dev_info_list_init.
+ * scsi_static_device_list: list of devices that require settings that differ
+ * from the default, includes black-listed (broken) devices. The entries here
+ * are added to the tail of scsi_dev_info_list via scsi_dev_info_list_init.
*
- * Do not add to this list, use the command line or proc interface to add
- * to the scsi_dev_info_list. This table will eventually go away.
+ * If possible, set the BLIST_* flags from inside a SCSI LLD rather than
+ * adding an entry to this list.
*/
static struct {
char *vendor;