>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: James> I also don't really like this. If the device has a failure like James> the QEMU one where it just hangs up, this won't help because the James> problem already happened. Conversely, if the device replies in James> the negative, it should always do so, so I can't see what this James> buys us, except the possibility of doing the wrong thing on a James> transient error Yeah. James> I'd be much happier if you can point to a problem that this would James> solve. I'd like more details as well. If we are going to entertain skipping VPD pages on error I would like it to be as a result of a clear indication that it's the VPD that's the problem and not just any error returned while querying the page. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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