From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030474AbWIMBXF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:23:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030475AbWIMBXE (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:23:04 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:5252 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030474AbWIMBXC (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:23:02 -0400 Message-ID: <45075D73.5030005@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:22:59 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Michael Tokarev , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: Vendor field with USB, [SP]ATA etc-attached disks References: <4505A612.8070603@tls.msk.ru> <4505BA2B.1020105@garzik.org> <4506AB4B.9010801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4506AB4B.9010801@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > For the time being, we'll have to live with boilerplate ATA vendor and > truncated vendor ID. There are plans to make libata independent from Truncated model ID, I presume you mean. > SCSI which should solve the problem but it will take quite some time. Since ATA does not distinguish between vendor and model, you can't really solve the problem. Two high volume disk vendors don't bother to put a vendor name in the model string at all. Jeff