From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] ipr: Disk remove path cleanup Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:18:14 -0600 Message-ID: <442AA536.5040901@us.ibm.com> References: <200603291438.k2TEcJj0006799@d01av02.pok.ibm.com> <20060329151000.GB14690@infradead.org> Reply-To: brking@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060329151000.GB14690@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:38:18AM -0600, Brian King wrote: >> Instead of NULLing the resource entry pointer when a disk >> goes away to prevent any new commands being sent to it, >> set the adapter resource handle to an invalid value so >> new ops getting sent to it will fail with a selection timeout >> response. This patch is needed for future SATA patches. > > It would help greatly if you could split out the patches that don't > require libata changes so they could go into scsi-misc already. Ok. Will do. -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center