linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] scsi: Set allocation length to 255 for ATA Information VPD page

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2201090342130.56863@angie.orcam.me.uk>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:00:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
cc:     Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid@...ehiking.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] scsi: Set allocation length to 255 for ATA
 Information VPD page

Martin,

> > however partitions (of the MS-DOS type) are not recognised with any of
> > the disks including one holding the root device, so the system fails
> > to mount the root filesystem and therefore does not complete booting:
> 
> My mistake. An unrelated change to the revalidate logic in the last
> patch. Fixed and pushed.

 No worries, I'm glad I helped catch it early.  This version boots 
multi-user.

> For your Mylex issue I believe the first patch in the series is all
> that's needed:
> 
> 06a471da0937 ("scsi: core: Query VPD size before getting full page")

 It is.  Thanks for sorting out this issue!

  Maciej