From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, jgarzik@pobox.com,
scott.feldman@intel.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: e100 "Ferguson" release
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 10:38:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F2E9A09.7000707@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030803211333.12839f66.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
>
> For example, what do USB block device drivers do when -ENOMEM comes
> back? Do they just drop the request on the floor? No, rather they
> resubmit the request later without the scsi/block layer knowing
> anything about what happened, right?
I didn't notice any code to retry, but I did see some that morphed
ENOMEM into a generic scsi "error". Scsi presumably does something
more or less intelligent then.
The network layer on the other hand _does_ have hooks for retrying,
not that they're used much.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-03 4:34 e100 "Ferguson" release Feldman, Scott
2003-08-03 6:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 6:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 7:32 ` Ben Greear
2003-08-03 7:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 3:09 ` David Brownell
2003-08-04 3:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 3:45 ` David Brownell
2003-08-04 3:46 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 4:08 ` David Brownell
2003-08-04 4:13 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 17:38 ` David Brownell [this message]
2003-08-05 8:23 ` Felix Radensky
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-05 3:45 Feldman, Scott
2003-08-05 5:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-05 7:16 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-05 14:28 Feldman, Scott
2003-08-05 15:19 Feldman, Scott
2003-08-05 15:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-10 9:00 ` Felix Radensky
2003-08-05 15:44 ` Felix Radensky
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