Re: [PATCH] zfcp: Test kmalloc failure in scsi_get_vpd_page()

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On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 10:29 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 11/04/2009 07:50 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 18:18 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > 
> > The point of checking is not to send a VPD inquiry to USB devices that
> > don't support it.  These have a very limited range of supported VPD
> > pages.
> > 
> 
> OK thanks. But maybe just define a MIN_INQUIRY_SIZE instead of hard
> coded 32 everywhere, and use that. So in future if such a device is
> found we can easily change it.

So the minimum inquiry size would actually be 36 ... from
scsi_scan.c ... and that's hard coded to a value too.

> (Never say never ;-))

I'm hoping that by the time USB devices get complex enough to need more
than 28 VPD pages, they've actually discovered what conforming to the
standards means.

James


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