Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Add blist flags

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 07:10:14AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:54:43PM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > That's good to know (I was worried the device would not be detected as
> > supporting discard because it doesn't report lbpme and doesn't declare a
> > conformance version (see below)).
> 
> Ok, that makes things worse - you might be able to force it through
> sysfs, though.

I've got a hack that seems to be working for me - see below.

> > Is there a tree with all these updates
> > in or do they need to be pieced together from this email thread?
> 
> I'm picking this up for my scsi-queue tree.  Still need a review
> for the patch we're replying to before that one can go in, though.

OK.

> > Additionally is it worth quirking sd_try_rc16_first on when
> > BLIST_TRY_VPD_PAGES is present?
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.

OK did you want me to post a set of changes to your patch? I've
basically changed the patches from bypassing the SCSI level check (to
allow scanning of VPD pages) to also try READ_CAPACITY(16) first and
bypass lbpme checks. Now it's more of a case of BLIST_TRY_LBP...

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