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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:21:08 +0100
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...il.com>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: add try_rc16 blacklist flag

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:08:28PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Sitsofe" == Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...il.com> writes:
> 
> Sitsofe> Microsoft Hyper-V virtual disks currently only claim SPC-2
> Sitsofe> compliance causing the kernel skip checks for features such as
> Sitsofe> thin provisioning even though the virtual disk advertises them.
> 
> Last time around we identified this as a problem with Microsoft's
> interpretation of the T10 SBC spec. And they promised that they are
> going to fix that.

OK but if we were happy to wait for Microsoft to fix the problem on the
host why were the (broken and incomplete) BLIST_SKIP_VPD_PAGES patches
committed to 3.17 rather than withdrawn? What's going to be done about
those patches now?

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Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
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