From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Kenneth Johansson <ken@kenjo.org>,
Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@informatik.uni-bremen.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:19:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040429061956.GA3558@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040428221334.GA22404@taniwha.stupidest.org>
On Wed, Apr 28 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:09:54PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > So it just helped me unearth a different problem :-). There
> > certainly is a bug here, it looks like it's hardware though (see the
> > above description). ide-cd just needs to have it's SYNC_CACHE
> > retries limited, then the kernel should at least recover.
>
> I see cache flushes also go mute and hang forwever. I think ideally
> we need to hack the IDE layer to have sane timeouts or something
> perhaps?
Yeah, with 'retries' I mean waiting retries. The command does expire and
ide-cd notices it just doesn't put an upper bound on how long it waits.
A minute or so should suffice, unless the caller specifies otherwise.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-29 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-27 17:59 [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2 Kenneth Johansson
2004-04-27 18:36 ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-27 22:16 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
2004-04-28 11:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-28 18:29 ` Kenneth Johansson
2004-04-28 20:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-28 22:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-04-29 6:19 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-04-29 6:24 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-04-29 6:29 ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-28 19:20 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
2004-04-27 22:24 ` Panagiotis Papadakos
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