James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 19:54 -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: >> ... but why have the condition at all? What other peripheral >> device type should the _sd_ driver be handling?? Of course. Check the time stamp of my posting. #-) > The original patch was for some IBM ipr array that behaves stupidly and > requires a START_UNIT after a reset. I suspect this was the reason the > type check was in there. However, if there's a use for this outside the > particular array, then it should be taken out. Enabling this feature for RBC devices too is not a big deal. As mentioned earlier in the thread, sbp2 sets the respective flag to 1 for all devices now, so this change would allow to switch this back off. I don't anticipate actual need to ever switch it off though. > Note that there may be a bit of work necessary to make this function for > USB: it's keyed to the standard response CC/UA/LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, > INITIALIZING COMMAND REQUIRED. Since USB devices aren't necessarily > standards compliant in this regard, simply setting the bit may not work. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-== =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
