On 02/13/14 11:27, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > After discussion with jejb I've dropped the EVPD parsing. > So with this version we're just displaying the EVPD page > 0x80 and 0x83 as hexdumps; no parsing is attempted. > This drastically simplifies the patch, and we don't > have to worry about any parsing errors in kernel space. > Of course we'll need a parser in userspace, but that > doesn't need to do any I/O. So it's still a very nice > gain.
A general comment about this patch series: I think the cached copies of these pages should be refreshed at least after an INQUIRY DATA HAS CHANGED unit attention code has been received. Some SCSI target implementations allow to change this data after a LUN has been created. Bart. -- 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
