On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said:
> Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function
> calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became
> easy.
>
> Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you?
As an aside, this commit does indeed fix the bug I reported, but it
doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, not even into -stable.
Is it held up somehow?
(stable has
commit 0ac10bd036f0f3b8ce7ac2390446eab9531c72eb
Author: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jul 30 22:58:34 2013 -0400
SCSI: Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if skip_vpd_pages is set
which IIRC was eventually found not to be necessary, because this fix
works fine instead?)
Possibly I'm misremembering the order of month-old events and Martin's
fix was eventually considered better... in which case, sorry for the noise.
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