From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933368AbaLJVM6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:12:58 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29065 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932691AbaLJVMy (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:12:54 -0500 To: Long Li Cc: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, JBottomley@parallels.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi:storvsc enable reading from VPD pages on SPC-2 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <1418200705-488-1-git-send-email-longli@microsoft.com> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:12:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1418200705-488-1-git-send-email-longli@microsoft.com> (Long Li's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:38:25 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Long" == Long Li writes: Long> MSFT targets currently claim SPC-2 compliance while they implement Long> post SPC-2 features. With this patch we can correctly handle Long> WRITE_SAME_16 issues. Handle the issues or handle WRITE SAME(10/16)? + {"Msft", "Virtual Disk", "1.0", BLIST_TRY_VPD_PAGES}, Is that version field meaningful or is it safe for us to inquire about VPD pages without problems on older versions? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering