Messages in this thread | | | From | Vitaly Kuznetsov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 RESEND] scsi: report 'INQUIRY result too short' once per host | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:56:36 +0100 |
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Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> writes:
> On 10/30/2015 12:40 PM, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >> Some host adapters (e.g. Hyper-V storvsc) are known for not respecting the >> SPC-2/3/4 requirement for 'INQUIRY data (see table ...) shall contain at >> least 36 bytes'. As a result we get tons on 'scsi 0:7:1:1: scsi scan: >> INQUIRY result too short (5), using 36' messages on console. This can be >> problematic for slow consoles. Introduce short_inquiry flag in struct >> Scsi_Host to print the message once per host. >> >> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> >> --- >> Changes since v3 RESEND: >> - Sorry, I screwed up James address when sending 'v3 RESEND'. >> >> Changes since v3: >> - no changes, this is just a RESEND. >> >> Changes since v2: >> - This is a successor of previously sent (and still not merged) "scsi: >> introduce short_inquiry flag for broken host adapters" patch. I'm not >> particularly sure which solution is better but I'm leaning towards this >> one as it doesn't require changes to adapter drivers. >> --- >> drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 9 ++++++--- >> include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 3 +++ >> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> > Why not printk_once? > Should achieve the same result, and we're saving yet another flag... >
It seems it makes sense to print this warning per-host (as we can have many hosts) and not just once. It's hard to come up with a reasonable message for printk_once() -- "some of your SCSI devices are buggy" sounds to vague. Here we say "this particular scsi controller is buggy".
-- Vitaly
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