scsi: add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries
authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:49:17 +0000 (12:49 -0400)
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:16:41 +0000 (17:16 -0400)
commitc1d40a527e885a40bb9ea6c46a1b1145d42b66a0
treebbe0eb4aae1aa3b36c8ff3ad1fd99bfdb62621f6
parentfd2eb9034e48cdca358dc06a833a736e7c6f68dd
scsi: add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries

Despite supporting modern SCSI features some storage devices continue to
claim conformance to an older version of the SPC spec. This is done for
compatibility with legacy operating systems.

Linux by default will not attempt to read VPD pages on devices that
claim SPC-2 or older. Introduce a blacklist flag that can be used to
trigger VPD page inquiries on devices that are known to support them.

Reported-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
drivers/scsi/sd.c
include/scsi/scsi_device.h
include/scsi/scsi_devinfo.h