Minor core fix to prevent the sd driver printing the stream count every time we rescan and instead print only if it's changed The patch is available here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git scsi-fixes The short changelog is: John Garry (1): scsi: sd: Only print updates to permanent stream count And the diffstat: drivers/scsi/sd.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) With full diff below. James --- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c index 58fdf679341d..65cdc8b77e35 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -3120,6 +3120,7 @@ static void sd_read_io_hints(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer) { struct scsi_device *sdp = sdkp->device; const struct scsi_io_group_descriptor *desc, *start, *end; + u16 permanent_stream_count_old; struct scsi_sense_hdr sshdr; struct scsi_mode_data data; int res; @@ -3140,12 +3141,13 @@ static void sd_read_io_hints(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer) for (desc = start; desc < end; desc++) if (!desc->st_enble || !sd_is_perm_stream(sdkp, desc - start)) break; + permanent_stream_count_old = sdkp->permanent_stream_count; sdkp->permanent_stream_count = desc - start; if (sdkp->rscs && sdkp->permanent_stream_count < 2) sd_printk(KERN_INFO, sdkp, "Unexpected: RSCS has been set and the permanent stream count is %u\n", sdkp->permanent_stream_count); - else if (sdkp->permanent_stream_count) + else if (sdkp->permanent_stream_count != permanent_stream_count_old) sd_printk(KERN_INFO, sdkp, "permanent stream count = %d\n", sdkp->permanent_stream_count); }