> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 3:19 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases
> 
> >     default:
> >             vm_srb->data_in = UNKNOWN_TYPE;
> > -           vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags = 0;
> > +           vm_srb->win8_extension.srb_flags |=
> (SRB_FLAGS_DATA_IN |
> > +                                                SRB_FLAGS_DATA_OUT);
> 
> This would usually be a command that doesn't transfer data (e.g.
> TEST_UNIT_READY or SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE), do you really want to set the in
> and out flags here?

On the host, before they forward the command to the native driver stack, I am 
told they validate that the flags be correctly set because of some bugs in the 
Emulex driver.

K. Y
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