Retirement of CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 22:12:52 -0600, Scott Long 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)

Good idea.  I wonder, though, whether devices that hang or otherwise blow
up on a serial number inquiry would also have trouble with the supported
pages VPD page.  All the more reason we'll need people with the quirked
hardware to test it...

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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