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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libata-eh/pmp command sequence on NCQ media error
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 08:33:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4819B8A6.3040608@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4819B678.1010303@gmail.com>

Tejun Heo wrote:
>Mark Lord wrote:
..
>> Mmm.. gotta figure out a way to mark the port for RESET,
>> without having that action taint the commands already analyzed.
>>
>> I suppose I'll have to just clone some code from libata-eh to
>> do the READ_LOG_EXT and then qc_complete() those commands
>> before continuing.  Or something.
> 
> The usual way to handle this is to clear the controller state (not the 
> PHY) from ->error_handler() before calling the generic error_handler. 
> Many drivers do similar things - ahci restarts the engine, sil24 calls 
> sil24_init_port() and so on.  Does mv need PHY reset to get it working again?
..

Heh.. the thoughtful chip designers didn't include an engine-only reset mechanism.
If we reset the engine, it resets the PHY.  That's the whole problem here.
Things would be so much simpler if it did the simple thing..  :)

Cheers


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-01 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23 20:33 [PATCH] libata-eh copy result_tf flags from outgoing tf Mark Lord
2008-04-23 22:14 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-23 23:37   ` Mark Lord
2008-04-24  1:02     ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-24  2:24       ` Mark Lord
2008-04-24  2:43         ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-24  2:36       ` Mark Lord
2008-04-24  2:42         ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-24  2:36 ` [PATCH] libata-eh set tf flags in NCQ EH result_tf Mark Lord
2008-04-24  2:43   ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-25  5:15   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-25 13:56     ` libata-eh/pmp command sequence on NCQ media error Mark Lord
2008-04-25 16:10       ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-25 16:34         ` Mark Lord
2008-04-30 21:33         ` Mark Lord
2008-04-30 21:40           ` Mark Lord
2008-04-30 21:52             ` Mark Lord
2008-05-01  0:51             ` Tejun Heo
2008-05-01  2:45               ` Mark Lord
2008-05-01  2:55                 ` Tejun Heo
2008-05-01  3:47                   ` Mark Lord
2008-05-01 11:24                   ` Mark Lord
2008-05-01 12:24                     ` Tejun Heo
2008-05-01 12:33                       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-05-01 12:40                         ` Tejun Heo
2008-05-01  2:48               ` Mark Lord
2008-05-01  2:54                 ` Tejun Heo

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