linux-kernel - Re: Vendor field with USB, [SP]ATA etc-attached disks

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Date:	Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:28:28 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 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".

-- 
tejun
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