Retirement of CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL

[Scott Long]

Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:12:52PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> The attached patch should make CAM behave properly with regard to
>> probing device serial numbers only when the device advertises that
>> it supports it.  It will hopefully eliminate the need for the 
>> CAM_QUIRK_NOSERIAL quirk (one instance is left because of an unrelated 
>> legacy problem that may or may not be possible to fix).  This should
>> especially benefit USB-UMASS devices, where the console output should
>> be less noisy.  It might even make more devices work out-of-the-box.
>> So please focus testing on USB, but I'd also ask that people test
>> the following devices as well as any firewire devices:
>>
>>  * Western Digital My Book 250GB (USB)
>>  * Maxtor Personal Storage 3000XT (Firewire)
>>
> 
> Works fine with an external FireWire enclosure here:
> 
> da0: <Oxford S OXFORD IDE Devic 0040> Fixed Simplified Direct Access SCSI-4 device
> 
> - Christian
> 

Thanks for testing!

Scott