Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:49:17PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>     
> Despite supporting modern SCSI features some storage devices continue to
> claim conformance to an older version of the SPC spec. This is done for
> compatibility with legacy operating systems.
> 
> Linux by default will not attempt to read VPD pages on devices that
> claim SPC-2 or older. Introduce a blacklist flag that can be used to
> trigger VPD page inquiries on devices that are known to support them.
> 
> Reported-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

KY, can you send a hyperv patch that sets it to go along with this one?

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