From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 11 04:51:09 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D82316A417; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@nargothrond.kdm.org) Received: from nargothrond.kdm.org (nargothrond.kdm.org [70.56.43.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC4A13C461; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@nargothrond.kdm.org) Received: from nargothrond.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nargothrond.kdm.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8B4PHRu019042; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:25:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@nargothrond.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by nargothrond.kdm.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l8B4PH6U019041; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:25:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:25:17 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20070911042517.GA18197@nargothrond.kdm.org> References: <46E615C4.1010605@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46E615C4.1010605@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.1/4237/Mon Sep 10 20:44:16 2007 on nargothrond.kdm.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:00:11 +0000 Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, njl@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retirement of CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:51:09 -0000 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