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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:19:13 +0000 (09:19 -0700)
commitd1988d080f8522b44d08ac38c9e5f6a881968fce
tree1493698659cf78c66ee0a6da463812491482531e
parent2fc0acc5c14a0fd2973d8af261017df4f6d2fa3f
scsi: add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries

commit c1d40a527e885a40bb9ea6c46a1b1145d42b66a0 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
drivers/scsi/sd.c
include/scsi/scsi_device.h
include/scsi/scsi_devinfo.h