On Wed, Apr 24 2013 at 9:19pm -0400, Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Mike, > > Following up on our discussion at LSF/MM last week... > > Mike> Workaround disk firmware that improperly sets OPTIMAL TRANSFER > Mike> LENGTH to 0xFFFFFFFF (aka UINT_MAX or 4294967295U) by assuming > Mike> this _optional_ BLOCK LIMITS VPD field was not specified (0). > > My only real objection is that UINT_MAX appears to be completely > coincidental. What if the next drive specifies UINT_MAX-1 or $RANDOM? > > Lacking a decent heuristic I'd rather just blacklist the offending drive > using the skip_vpd_pages knob we already have in place. OK, sounds fine to me, thanks. -- 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
