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SubjectRe: Vendor field with USB, [SP]ATA etc-attached disks
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> For the time being, we'll have to live with boilerplate ATA vendor and
>> truncated vendor ID. There are plans to make libata independent from
>
> Truncated model ID, I presume you mean.

Yeap.

>> SCSI which should solve the problem but it will take quite some time.
>
> Since ATA does not distinguish between vendor and model, you can't
> really solve the problem. Two high volume disk vendors don't bother to
> put a vendor name in the model string at all.

I meant by being solved "not printing emulated SCSI stuff including
vendor ID while printing model ID fully and other ATA stuff".

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tejun
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