On 06/06/2016 17:47, John Snow wrote: > > > Various downstreams may have backported the VPD fix to older versions, > > > we need to be careful not to block those, too ... so targeting the core > > > behavior seems like the more strictly correct, easily maintainable > > > solution. > > > > I think this is not practical. I'm okay with the big hammer if an > > algorithmic fix is not feasible; but otherwise it does seem a better > > idea than blacklisting based on inquiry data... > > You think the more practical solution is a SCSI driver that can hang > because of an incorrect/missing response and to maintain a carefully > curated blacklist to work around this behavior?
The best solution would be an algorithmic fix, perhaps predicated by some kind of quirk bit. A carefully curated blacklist is impossible because you cannot account for a zillion downstreams, most of which probably don't change the inquire vendor/product data; version numbers are awful. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
