Re: [PATCH] scsi: use ATA-12 pass-thru for OPAL as fallback

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Oct 16 2023 - 09:20:19 EST


On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 09:24:16AM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> I think it is blocked in USB layer as not running command enumeration,
> SCSI SECURITY will be never sent to the adapter through USB.

What is blocked?

>> besides the fact that the statement is fundamentally wrong and you'll
>> start sending ATA command to random devices.
>
> So what do you suggest? As I said, this exactly happen if you configure it from userspace.

If the USB maintainers are fine with it add the translation to
usb-storage as that's where we deal with these quirky devices usually.