On 06/18/2015 01:40 PM, Chris Boot wrote: > On 18/06/15 10:43, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> Strictly speaking SPC doesn't require READ CAPACITY and friends >> to be supported while in the port is in standby. > > Hi Hannes, > > I'd really rather this didn't go away. Yes, strictly speaking SPC > doesn't require these commands but Linux in practice does, and ISTR this > was added at my request too. > > We need it on our storage setups to prevent the Linux SCSI stack from > exploding. If this is removed here, they'll start exploding again until > the fix goes in and the initiators are updated. > This was exactly why I added it, so that one could go about and fix the linux SCSI stack :-) > Could this please be kept as an option or something? > Yeah, I see what I can do. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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
