On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:42:40PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > James and Greg: > > Perry Wagle reports that his new USB-ESATA drives don't work properly > because they don't like getting the LUN bits in the second byte of the > command string. We set those bits only because usb-storage adjusts the > SCSI revision level for all devices to SCSI-2; the drives themselves > report a value of 0x06 (which would be SCSI-7). > > The reason for mangling the scsi_level value was that some USB devices > reported SCSI-3 but couldn't handle some of the mandatory features: VPD > pages and the REPORT LUNS command. It's now clear that instead of > abusing scsi_level, we should have separate flags for the individual > features we need to control. > > That's what this patch series does. The first merely corrects an > existing typo in the definition of struct scsi_target. The second adds > the new flags and makes usb-storage use them. The third takes this > opportunity to do a little code clean-up in usb-storage. > > The changes are more or less equally divided between SCSI and > usb-storage. James, if they look okay to you and you don't mind taking > them through your tree, that would be fine. Or if you prefer, I'm sure > Greg won't mind taking them. I'll be glad to take these, James, any objection? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
