On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Martin Wilck wrote:

>
>
> > Generally, I think that the SG driver, the mid-level and the low level
> > drivers should avoid messing with the details of a SCSI command -- they
> > should simply pass a command to the device and return the result; any
> > implicit assumptions about a SCSI command may lead to unneccasry
> > hassles.
>
> OK, you're right.
>
> but is it really necessary to set the request size to 255 when initially
> scanning the bus? I can't see any reference to data above byte 36
> in scan_scsis_single().
>
> The problem with "my" device would be solved if only the "generic" bus
> scanning routines limit themselves to 36 bytes. Other subsystems needing
> INQUIRY's could still do what they want.

Definitely NNNNOOOOO!!!!. This will make Linux SCSI _broken_ for SPC2 by
default.

You your 'my device' is unable to tell the SCSI layer about its identity
using the SCSI protocol, then it cannot be supported by default.

  Gérard.


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