On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:57:58AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:

> This is an awful lot of contortions (which don't seem to have any other
> users on the horizon) to support a device that's not standards
> compliant.  What about this, it's simple, it does the right thing and
> it's contained in the driver of the problem device.
> 
> James
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> index 83ec1aa..bd86a4b 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> @@ -1438,6 +1438,12 @@ static int storvsc_device_configure(struct scsi_device 
> *sdevice)
>  
>       sdevice->no_write_same = 1;
>  
> +     /*
> +      * hyper-v is stupid and lies about its capabilities
> +      * If we pretend to be SPC-3, we send RC16 which activates trim
> +      */
> +     sdevice->scsi_level = SCSI_SPC_3;
> +
>       return 0;
>  }

I will get that tested and see if there are any other negative side effects.

-apw
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