Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > 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. > It looks like a crude hack was added to the sbp firewire driver to short circuit exactly what my patch is trying to fix. ScottReceived on Tue Sep 11 2007 - 03:08:37 UTC
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