RE: [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries

2014-07-21 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.peter...@oracle.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 9:49 AM To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: KY Srinivasan Subject: [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries Despite supporting modern SCSI

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries

2014-07-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:49:17PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: Despite supporting modern SCSI features some storage devices continue to claim conformance to an older version of the SPC spec. This is done for compatibility with legacy operating systems. Linux by default will not

RE: [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries

2014-07-18 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 8:04 AM To: Martin K. Petersen Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries On Tue, Jul 15, 2014