On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:26:05AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > For any device with an older SCSI revision we might not > be scanning VPD pages, which results in a wrongly configured > discard mode if thin provisioned is enabled. > According to sbc3 any thin provisioned device (ie devices which > have the LBPME bit set in the output of READ CAPACITY(16)) need > to support VPD pages. So this patch always enables VPD pages > even for older SCSI revisions if thin provisioning is enabled.
Can you explain what you need this for? A device with a per-SBC3 revision that wants us to use UNMAP? > + /* > + * sbc3r36 states: > + * The device server in a logical unit the supports > + * logical block provisioning management shall support > + * the Logical Block Provisioning VPD page. > + * So VPD pages should be supported if lbpme is set. > + */ It's a bit odd to quote SBC3 when the device clearly is pre-SBC3 to need this workaround.. > + if (!scsi_device_supports_vpd(sdp)) > + sdp->try_vpd_pages = 1; Do the assignment unconditionally? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
