linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

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Message-ID: <8738qrfyh1.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
Date:	Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:46:02 +0100
From:	Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, nick.cheng@...ca.com.tw,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert told this:

> Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function
> calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became
> easy.
>
> Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you?

Sorry for the delay: it's hard for me to verify this during the working
week.

I'll check it tomorrow -- after I've run a backup! :} (why yes, bugs of
this nature do frighten me a bit. I know it's superstition, but I'm
always wondering whether the SCSI controller will come back again
whenever that post-error bus reset happens.)

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