Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:25:17 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, njl@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retirement of CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL Message-ID: <20070911042517.GA18197@nargothrond.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <46E615C4.1010605@samsco.org> References: <46E615C4.1010605@samsco.org>
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 22:12:52 -0600, Scott Long 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) Good idea. I wonder, though, whether devices that hang or otherwise blow up on a serial number inquiry would also have trouble with the supported pages VPD page. All the more reason we'll need people with the quirked hardware to test it... Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org
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