--- On Thu, 2/7/08, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is all a tradeoff. If you want userspace *never* to > issue raw SCSI > commands like INQUIRY, we're going to have to provide > the needed > information from the kernel via sysfs ... including VPD > strings. This > is something we've always shovelled off into userspace > before. What if a user-space application client _does_ send an INQUIRY to a device anyway? It would probably be better to preserve application client behaviour and simulate/emulate n-th INQUIRY, after the 1st for such broken device firmwares that break on any subsequent INQUIRY. Possibly in the LLDD or via blacklisting in the mid-layer. Luben - 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
