Hi Linus! > But I also know that pretty much *EVERY* time the SCSI layer has > decided to start looking at some new piece of data, it turns out that > "Oh, look, all those devices have only ever been tested with operating > systems that did *NOT* look at that mode page or other thing, and > surprise surprise - not being tested means that it's buggy". We have been working towards poking the same things in the same order as a well-known desktop operating system. Explicitly to leverage USB device manufacturer testing. > Put another way: why wasn't this an explicit opt-in from the get-go? Because the expectation is that it will be widely implemented and used on pretty much anything that speaks SCSI except USB-attached gadgets. Hence the ask to disable it for the USB transports instead of complicating things for every other use case. It is always unfortunate when a change causes regressions. I agree that, given that this involved a mode page, there should have been extra safeguards in place. I should have caught that. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
