On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:22:15AM -0700, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Because there is no guarantee that pre-SCSI-3 devices (or devices
> announcing to be pre-SCSI-3) will not allow to scan more than 256
> devices.
> Thinking of older Symmetrix here with their weird 'SPC-3 masking as
> SCSI-2' habit.

Don't we have a blist entry for those to use REPORT LUNS anyway?
> 
> Also currently we're allowing to scan beyond 256 without any
> restrictions there might be installations out there which rely on
> this behaviour.
> 
> Hence this flag.

Which doesn't really have an effect as-is as it's never set.

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