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scsi: add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries

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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@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Martin K. Petersen
2014-07-15 12:49:17 -04:00
committed by Christoph Hellwig
parent fd2eb9034e
commit c1d40a527e
4 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
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@@ -928,7 +928,9 @@ static int scsi_add_lun(struct scsi_device *sdev, unsigned char *inq_result,
sdev->eh_timeout = SCSI_DEFAULT_EH_TIMEOUT;
if (*bflags & BLIST_SKIP_VPD_PAGES)
if (*bflags & BLIST_TRY_VPD_PAGES)
sdev->try_vpd_pages = 1;
else if (*bflags & BLIST_SKIP_VPD_PAGES)
sdev->skip_vpd_pages = 1;
transport_configure_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);