Re: [PATCH v2] SCSI: detect missing data for INQUIRY

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On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, James Bottomley wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 12:44 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > James:
> > 
> > There hasn't been any feedback on this patch:
> > 
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122513368301598&w=2
> > 
> > It was modified in the way you requested.  Does it need to be revised 
> > any more?
> 
> Probably not.  I really dislike a check and retry on something which is
> theoretically a legal return, but I suppose I can put it in and see if
> anything breaks.

It's too bad that the scsi_execute_req() interface loses all 
information about how much data the device actually sent.  If that 
information were preserved then it wouldn't be necessary to rely on 
this not-quite-satisfactory sort of test.

Alan Stern

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