On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:22:15AM -0700, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Because there is no guarantee that pre-SCSI-3 devices (or devices > announcing to be pre-SCSI-3) will not allow to scan more than 256 > devices. > Thinking of older Symmetrix here with their weird 'SPC-3 masking as > SCSI-2' habit. Don't we have a blist entry for those to use REPORT LUNS anyway? > > Also currently we're allowing to scan beyond 256 without any > restrictions there might be installations out there which rely on > this behaviour. > > Hence this flag. Which doesn't really have an effect as-is as it's never set. -- 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
