From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: give devices one last chance even if recovery failed with -EINVAL
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:10:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4644E9F2.3000706@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464465BB.5070203@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> After certain errors, some devices report complete garbage on
> IDENTIFY. This can cause ata_dev_read_id() to fail with -EINVAL
> resulting in immediate disabling of the device. Give the device one
> last chance after -EINVAL to allow recovery from such situations. As
> -EINVAL is triggered very rarely, this shouldn't cause any noticeable
> affect on more common error paths.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> Cc: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
applied
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2007-05-11 12:46 [PATCH] libata: give devices one last chance even if recovery failed with -EINVAL Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 22:10 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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