Re: Retirement of CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL

On 9/11/07, Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> The attached patch should make CAM behave properly with regard to
> probing device serial numbers only when the device advertises that
> it supports it.  It will hopefully eliminate the need for the
> CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL quirk (one instance is left because of an unrelated
> legacy problem that may or may not be possible to fix).  This should
> especially benefit USB-UMASS devices, where the console output should
> be less noisy.  It might even make more devices work out-of-the-box.
> So please focus testing on USB, but I'd also ask that people test
> the following devices as well as any firewire devices:
>
>   * Western Digital My Book 250GB (USB)
>   * Maxtor Personal Storage 3000XT (Firewire)

As far as I tested a few months ago, the quirk for Maxtor 3000XT is
not necessary
any more, though I don't know why.

Please remove it.

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