From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI merge for 2.6.13
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:14:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126116850.4823.31.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050907174744.GA13172@us.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:47 -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> The scsi_execute() retries argument is still not used.
Yes, Jens was thinking about how to add this to the block layer.
> How is this going to work?
>
> For example, multiple unit attentions (power on / reset) during scanning.
> We send REPORT LUN, READ CAPACITY, etc., and would not retry if we got a
> unit attention.
Well ... all of the places we were specifying retries mostly had three
of them, so the scsi_request_fn() actually hard codes three retries. A
hack, but it works until the real method is in place.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-07 0:37 [GIT PATCH] SCSI merge for 2.6.13 James Bottomley
2005-09-07 17:47 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-07 18:14 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-09-07 19:35 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-08 0:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-08 0:40 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-08 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-08 0:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-08 0:56 ` James Bottomley
2005-09-08 0:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-08 0:53 ` James Bottomley
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2005-09-13 2:44 [GIT PATCH] scsi " James Bottomley
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