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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>, Andy Warner <andyw@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: libata todo item: retry certain classes of errors
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:50:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <420031D5.9090304@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105106379.17166.325.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 04:33, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>libata error handling is still of the "stupid simple" variety.  While 
>>that makes it easy to verify, it also means that we don't always recover 
>>  from some situations.
>>
>>Right now, libata simply returns an error back to the SCSI layer.
> 
> 
> I did actually arrange that all the SCSI errors it faked caused the
> right retry behaviour at the SCSI level when I did that. Perhaps I
> should have commented that fact.

Well the retry needs to e.g. include a bus reset prior to retrying.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-02  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-07  4:33 libata todo item: retry certain classes of errors Jeff Garzik
2005-01-07 14:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-02  1:50   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-02-03 10:02     ` Alan Cox
2005-02-03 17:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-03 17:16         ` Alan Cox

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