Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755660Ab0LHPQs (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:16:48 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:51766 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755571Ab0LHPQr (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:16:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:16:46 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: James Bottomley cc: Greg KH , Luben Tuikov , Matthew Dharm , Linus Torvalds , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH repost 3] [SCSI] Retrieve the Caching mode page In-Reply-To: <1291784742.24312.40.camel@mulgrave.site> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 24 On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, James Bottomley wrote: > Well, not other than I've already said: I think it looks OK, so I > marked it for my merge window queue. I'd still rather like USB people > to confirm that the original reason why this was done (to prevent device > crashes on the mode sense) is no longer an issue The original reason for adding the skip_ms_page_8 flag still applies. To assume it is no longer an issue would not be safe -- there's no reason to believe that the buggy devices it was meant for have all been retired. > ... but it's only USB > stuff, so suppose I'm OK with finding out in the field. With USB there's often no other choice. Alan Stern -- 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/