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From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: nvme device timeout
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:06:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160329110659.GA10015@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36E8D38D6B771A4BBDB1C0D800158A51865EFB85@SSIEXCH-MB3.ssi.samsung.com>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016@11:04:51AM +0000, Judy Brock-SSI wrote:
> I think controllers that need it won't know they need it (like Keith hypothesized, will have an unknowing reliance on polling for completions during probe) and so a quirk flag won't do a lot of good.
> Seems like it makes sense to put it back in to avoid breaking HW that do need it if there is not a compelling functional reason not to do so. Since 4.6 is still in RC stage, maybe it could be put back into 4.6.

It's not about not knowing - these controllers are broken plain and
simple and need to be fixed.  It's the same as we do for all kinds of
USB crap in SCSI - we don't simple tolerate broken behavior but instead
require a quirk for it.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-28 16:44 nvme device timeout Tim Mohlmann
2016-03-28 17:24 ` Keith Busch
2016-03-28 22:30   ` Judy Brock-SSI
2016-03-28 22:54     ` Keith Busch
2016-03-29  7:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-29 11:04         ` Judy Brock-SSI
2016-03-29 11:06           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-03-29 14:42             ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-03-29 16:52               ` Tim Mohlmann
     [not found] <1604554248.106551459228253752.JavaMail.weblogic@epmlwas03c>
2016-03-29 14:38 ` Keith Busch
2016-03-29 17:17   ` Tim Mohlmann
2016-04-01 16:02   ` Derrick, Jonathan
2016-04-01 16:25     ` Derrick, Jonathan

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