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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Mid-layer handling of NOT_READY conditions...
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:44:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107017081.4535.29.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106977566.9862.102.camel@plap>

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 21:46 -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> Returning back DID_IMM_RETRY for these 'transport' related conditions
> would of course help in this issue -- but at the same time bring with it
> several side-effects which may not be desirable.
> 
> So, beyond this particular circumstance, what would be considered a
> 'proper' return status for this type of event? 

Well, the correct return, since this is a condition from the storage, is
simply the check condition and the sense code (rather than having the
driver interpret it).

> > Would this be an approach to consider?  Or should we tackle the problem
> > by addressing the quirky (cmd->retries > cmd->allowed) state?

That's what I think the correct approach should be....we have a few
other quirky devices that aren't pleased with our current NOT_READY
handling.  Were you going to look into coding up a patch for this?

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 23:24 Mid-layer handling of NOT_READY conditions Andrew Vasquez
2005-01-29  5:46 ` Andrew Vasquez
2005-01-29 16:16   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-29 16:44   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-01-29 19:34     ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-01-30  1:40       ` James Bottomley
2005-01-30  2:33       ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-01-31  7:47       ` Andrew Vasquez
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-31  9:46 Mid-Layer handling of NOT READY conditions EXT / DEVOTEAM VAROQUI Christophe
2005-01-31 14:07 goggin, edward
2005-01-31 16:56 Mid-layer handling of NOT_READY conditions James.Smart
2005-01-31 17:36 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-02-01  7:21   ` Andrew Vasquez
2005-01-31 18:22 ` Andrew Vasquez
2005-01-31 19:07 James.Smart

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