Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753411Ab3ITWvt (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:51:49 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:39181 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936Ab3ITWvq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:51:46 -0400 To: Bernd Schubert Cc: Nix , Greg KH , "Martin K. Petersen" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, nick.cheng@areca.com.tw, stable@vger.kernel.org, Douglas Gilbert , "James E.J. Bottomley" Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <87mwp5frdl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F67959.2060803@fastmail.fm> <87fvuxdqes.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F80167.1080004@fastmail.fm> <51F94E8D.5040908@fastmail.fm> <51F95A2E.60805@fastmail.fm> <51FA71E2.6010501@fastmail.fm> <871u5b7azv.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <20130831015337.GA8164@kroah.com> <87d2ot1w27.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <52238A33.7020703@fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:51:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <52238A33.7020703@fastmail.fm> (Bernd Schubert's message of "Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:40:51 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 20 >>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert writes: [Sorry about the delay. Catching up on a couple of weeks worth of email] Bernd> So if anything else than a Seagate drive is connected to an Areca Bernd> controller with older firmware it will still fail. It's just blacklisting a specific Seagate drive. However, skip_vpd_pages is also set by USB. I'm still completely in favor of your patch to reduce the VPD buffer size. Please resubmit and feel free to add my Acked-by:. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/