From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCHSET #upstream] libata: improve FLUSH error handling Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:58 +0900 Message-ID: <47ECB226.40009@gmail.com> References: <12066128663306-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <47EBAE2B.8070102@rtr.ca> <87bq4zl29s.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <47ECACBB.2060207@gmail.com> <873aqbkzde.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.246]:3992 "EHLO hs-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbYC1IyO (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:54:14 -0400 Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 4so129654hsl.5 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:54:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <873aqbkzde.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Mark Lord , jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Hello, Andi Kleen wrote: > Tejun Heo writes: > >> Regarding the boot time exception, which >> version was it and do you have logs? > > I tried first 2.6.25-rc4 and then 2.6.24 (similar behaviour). Hmmm... > My impression was also that the exception handling was very > heavy handed -- is it really needed to always reset the link > on each error? It depends on the type of error. For things like state machine violation and timeouts, I think it's safer to reset. > I'll send you full logs (huge) in separate mail. Alright. -- tejun