Re: [PATCH 0/1] Summary: hwmon driver for temperature sensors on SATA drives

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Tue Dec 17 2019 - 22:43:12 EST



Guenter,

>> Also, there are some devices that will lock up the way you access that
>> VPD page. So a tweak is also required there.
>>
> Do you have details ? Do I need to add a call to scsi_device_supports_vpd(),
> maybe ?

Some devices lock up if you ask for too much data. I actually discovered
a VPD handling regression in 5.5 while working on a series of prep
patches for you today. Working on a fix. I'll try to get a patch series
out for review tomorrow.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering