From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Jun 2 06:48:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA19438 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 06:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA19428 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 06:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA20775; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:47:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA28015; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:47:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA12335; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 09:54:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606020754.JAA12335@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Archive Viper not correctly identified. To: scsi@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 09:54:04 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from John Fieber at "May 31, 96 08:25:21 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > Regardless, a more informative comment at the head of the quirk > list describing the policy, and mentioning the fact that the > manufacturer, model and revision fields are 8, 16 and 4 bytes > respectively would be helpful to future quriklist maintainers. Since you are going to commit a change in this area anyway... do add this comment. :) Btw., this changes is potentially also valid for the -stable branch. Alas, 2.1 didn't use the exact same quirk semantics as we do now, so this one will be quite a bit more work. John, tell us if you are _not_ going to do it (so someone else can do it). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)