Messages in this thread | | | From | Nix <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:01:56 +0100 |
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On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said:
> Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became > easy. > > Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you?
As an aside, this commit does indeed fix the bug I reported, but it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, not even into -stable.
Is it held up somehow?
(stable has
commit 0ac10bd036f0f3b8ce7ac2390446eab9531c72eb Author: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Date: Tue Jul 30 22:58:34 2013 -0400
SCSI: Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if skip_vpd_pages is set
which IIRC was eventually found not to be necessary, because this fix works fine instead?)
Possibly I'm misremembering the order of month-old events and Martin's fix was eventually considered better... in which case, sorry for the noise.
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