>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]> writes:
>> I wonder how many non-compliant devices we would have to blacklist as >> a result of this change... Hannes> But it feels even sillier having to whitelist every Hannes> standards-conformant device here; I certainly was when I figured Hannes> that EMC Clariion won't work properly without this patch. Hannes> And the idea was to mark off _misbehaving_ drives, not the other Hannes> way round. I understand. But my concern is that the number of broken USB doodad model strings far outnumber enterprise storage vendor ditto. And there is no point in reversing the polarity if it increases the maintenance burden. So I would be more comfortable with just widening the VPD whitelist and assume that everything with an EMC, Dell, NetApp, whatever vendor ID is compliant. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
