From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.3.4 && Aic79xx 2.0.5 Updates Date: 24 Dec 2003 13:05:12 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1072292714.2415.39.camel@mulgrave> References: <1051920000.1054684267@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <3637050000.1054690456@aslan.s csiguy.com> <2113050000.1072285128@aslan.scsiguy.com> <1072288242.1906.35.camel@mulgrave> <2148850000.1072292121@aslan.scsiguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat1.steeleye.com ([65.114.3.130]:22746 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263800AbTLXTFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:05:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <2148850000.1072292121@aslan.scsiguy.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: SCSI Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Andrew Morton 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