On Feb 13, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Jeremy Linton <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 2/13/2013 7:06 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
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>> But unfortunately it failed the reality check; of my zoo of storage arrays
>> only NetApp OnTap 8.X and HP P2000 supports the REPORT SUPPORTED TASK
>> MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS command. None of the others (HP EVA, NetApp E-Series,
>> EMC Clariion CX-3) do.
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>       I'm not really surprised. I've had better luck with devices that report
> compliance with more recent versions of the specification. Of the those, I
> would guess slightly more than 50% support it. That includes tape drives,
> changer devices, and raid controllers. Of the ones I've tested that support
> it, they almost always report 0xDA for the first byte. Which correspond to
> abort task, abort task set, clear task set, lun reset and target reset.
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For the case where report supported TMFs is not supported can we just have the 
LLD return some new return code from the eh callback when it gets 
FUNCTION_REJECTED. scsi-ml would then clear the eh_*_ok bit, so at least it 
would not be called again.--
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