RE: [PATCH] scsi:storvsc enable reading from VPD pages on SPC-2

From: Long Li
Date: Wed Dec 10 2014 - 17:48:31 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sitsofe Wheeler [mailto:sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:58 PM
> To: Long Li
> Cc: KY Srinivasan; Haiyang Zhang; JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi:storvsc enable reading from VPD pages on SPC-2
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:38:25AM -0800, Long Li wrote:
> > MSFT targets currently claim SPC-2 compliance while they implement
> > post SPC-2 features. With this patch we can correctly handle
> > WRITE_SAME_16 issues.
> >
> > This patch fixes an issue where the flag is setup too late in drive
> > initialization process.
>
> Li, is this a fix for the issue I keep whinging about over in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/21/23 ?
>
> If is the same issue you may want to CC Martin on this...

This is only for fixing WRITE_SAME_16. The rest of the thin provisioning (e.g. UNMAP) is still broken on SPC-2.

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