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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.3.4 && Aic79xx 2.0.5 Updates
Date: 24 Dec 2003 13:05:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072292714.2415.39.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2148850000.1072292121@aslan.scsiguy.com>

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 12:55, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> The last 10% is a change to having the driver completely do its own
> error recovery.  This change originated in late July and has received
> extensive testing since then.  This is the reason that a major driver
> version number bump was required for both drivers.  It is just not
> possible to get sane error recovery behavior if the mid-layer ever
> sees a timeout, so this really is a *bug fix*.

Elaborate on this more please...the error handling has been
substantially revised between 2.4 and 2.6 with a view to making it more
robust.  I don't recall seeing any bug reports from adaptec on the
issue, but if there's a mid-layer problem, I'm sure we can fix it.

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-24 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-03 23:51 (unknown) Justin T. Gibbs
2003-06-03 23:58 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-06-04  1:34 ` Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-24 16:58   ` Aic7x_x_x 6.3.4 && Aic79xx 2.0.5 Updates Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-24 17:50     ` James Bottomley
     [not found]       ` <2148850000.1072292121@aslan.scsiguy.com>
2003-12-24 19:05         ` James Bottomley [this message]
2003-12-25  4:31           ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-26 18:36             ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27  0:13               ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-27  3:20                 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27  4:26                   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-27  6:08                     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-27 15:11                     ` Alan Cox
2003-12-27 15:47                       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-27 15:52                     ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27 15:17               ` Alan Cox
2003-12-27 15:54                 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27 23:55                   ` Alan Cox
2003-12-27 16:02                 ` Justin T. Gibbs

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