On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:32:30AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > This patch delegates setting the queue NONROT flag to SCSI. > > It also provides new heuristics for parsing both the form factor and > media rotation rate ATA IDENFITY words. > > The reported ATA version must be 7 or greater and the device must return > values defined as valid in the standard. Only then are the > characteristics reported to SCSI via the VPD B1 page. > > This seems like a reasonable compromise to me considering that we have > been shipping several kernel releases that key off the rotation rate bit > without any version checking whatsoever. With no complaints so far. > > Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
