James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:20 -0500, brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> If a scsi device reports less than 36 bytes of standard inquiry >> data, scsi core logs a KERN_INFO printk indicating this. It was >> observed that this results in lots of clutter in the log on >> systems with devices that respond to a SCSI Inquiry with PQ=3 or >> PQ=1 with less than 36 bytes of inquiry data, such as ibmvscsi. >> Disable this log by default. > > It shouldn't be doing this ... the standards are pretty clear, say SPC-3 > section 6.4.2 > > "The standard INQUIRY data shall contain at least 36 bytes" > > Horrible things happen when this rule is violated (as it is by some > badly constructed devices), so I'd really like to leave the print in so > we know what we're debugging. > > Can't you fix ibmvscsi to be standards compliant? James, You can drop this patch. I've verified that the current ibmvscsi server does not do this. I wasn't using the latest ibmvscsi server implementation. Brian -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - 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
