On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 16:00 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > In theory, I suppose we could change the kernel so that it would > default to READ CAPACITY(16) for devices that report a SCSI level >= > 3, or something along those lines. In general we hesitate to make > changes of this sort, because they almost always end up breaking > _some_ devices -- and if that happens then the change is reverted, > with no exceptions. Linus has a very strict rule about not breaking > working systems.
You shouldn't have to change anything: it already does (otherwise how else would we detect physical exponent for proper SCSI devices) see sd.c:sd_try_rc16_first(). It always returns false for USB because you set sdev->try_rc_10_first James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
