On 09/30/2015 07:14 PM, Andy Grover wrote: > On 09/30/2015 03:09 AM, David Disseldorp wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 19:44:10 +0200, David Disseldorp wrote: >> >>> This patch-set allows for the modification of the T10 Vendor >>> Identification string returned in the SCSI INQUIRY response, via the >>> target/core/$backstore/$name/wwn/vendor_id ConfigFS path. > >> Any thoughts on these changes? I'll rebase them once Christoph's >> configfs series is queued. > > I didn't see a reason given for this change - is it so vendors can use > their own VID when basing products on LIO? > > If so, I wonder if a compile-time config option to change it from the > default might be sufficient. > Sure we could make this a compile-time option, but that would require everyone building a storage appliance to recompile the module/kernel. Which is not what we as an OS vendor would want. (And I guess RH will have the same opinion wrt rebuilding kernel modules ...) Plus LIO-ORG is not registered with T-10, so one cannot build a standard-compliant storage appliance nowadays. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
