scsi: add a blacklist flag which enables VPD page inquiries
Despite supporting modern SCSI features some storage devices continue to
claim conformance to an older version of the SPC spec. This is done for
compatibility with legacy operating systems.
Linux by default will not attempt to read VPD pages on devices that
claim SPC-2 or older. Introduce a blacklist flag that can be used to
trigger VPD page inquiries on devices that are known to support them.
Reported-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
index b895784..1a0d184 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@
unsigned skip_ms_page_8:1; /* do not use MODE SENSE page 0x08 */
unsigned skip_ms_page_3f:1; /* do not use MODE SENSE page 0x3f */
unsigned skip_vpd_pages:1; /* do not read VPD pages */
+ unsigned try_vpd_pages:1; /* attempt to read VPD pages */
unsigned use_192_bytes_for_3f:1; /* ask for 192 bytes from page 0x3f */
unsigned no_start_on_add:1; /* do not issue start on add */
unsigned allow_restart:1; /* issue START_UNIT in error handler */