Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] scsi: sr: workaround VMware ESXi cdrom emulation bug

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 07:23:07PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:52:46PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > 
> > The drive claims to have a tray and claims to be able to close it.
> > However, the UI has no notion of a tray - when medium is ejected it is
> > dropped in the floor and the user must select a medium again before the
> > drive can be re-loaded.  On the kernel side the tray_move call to close
> > the tray succeeds but the drive state does not change as a result of the
> > call.
> > 
> > The drive does not in fact emulate the tray state. There are two ways to
> > get the medium state. One is the SCSI status:
> 
> Given that this is a buggy software emulation we should not add more
> than 100 lines of kernel code to work around it.  Ask VMware to fix
> their mess instead.

And never hear back from them. Not to mention the installed base of
already buggy servers.

Thanks

Michal



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