On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 08:57:23AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > ACS defines the ATA Identify Device Data log as mandatory. A warning > message currently signals to the user if a device does not report > supporting this log page in the log directory page. However, it is > useless to constantly access the log directory and warn about this lack > of support once we have discovered that the device does not support > this mandatory log page. > > Introduce the horkage flag ATA_HORKAGE_NO_ID_DEV_LOG to mark a device as > lacking support for the Identify Device Data log page. Set this flag > when ata_log_supported() returns false in ata_identify_page_supported(). > The warning is printed only once on device scan and the log directory > not accessed again to test for Identify Device Data log page support. Should we also just set it by default for older devices? I'd need to look up when it was introduced, but I think it is a somewhat recent addition.
