Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:08:14 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, njl@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Retirement of CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL Message-ID: <46E622BE.6050108@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <626eb4530709102132t7f17ec37lf4ef1c11874fde0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <46E615C4.1010605@samsco.org> <626eb4530709102132t7f17ec37lf4ef1c11874fde0c@mail.gmail.com>
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Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > On 9/11/07, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: >> All, >> >> The attached patch should make CAM behave properly with regard to >> probing device serial numbers only when the device advertises that >> it supports it. It will hopefully eliminate the need for the >> CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL quirk (one instance is left because of an unrelated >> legacy problem that may or may not be possible to fix). This should >> especially benefit USB-UMASS devices, where the console output should >> be less noisy. It might even make more devices work out-of-the-box. >> So please focus testing on USB, but I'd also ask that people test >> the following devices as well as any firewire devices: >> >> * Western Digital My Book 250GB (USB) >> * Maxtor Personal Storage 3000XT (Firewire) > > As far as I tested a few months ago, the quirk for Maxtor 3000XT is > not necessary > any more, though I don't know why. > > Please remove it. > It looks like a crude hack was added to the sbp firewire driver to short circuit exactly what my patch is trying to fix. Scott
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