Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1

Oliver Neukum
2004-10-05T15:49:14Z

Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 16:56 schrieb James Bottomley:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:44, Mark Lord wrote:
> > There seem to be other holes/races in this and related code.
> >
> > The QStor driver implements hot insertion/removal of drives.
> >
> > One thing it has to cope with at present is, after notifying
> > the mid-layer that a drive has been removed, the mid-layer calls
> > back with a synchronize-cache command for that drive..
>
> This is expected behaviour. For orderly removal an cache sync command
> must be sent to drives with a writeback cache before they're powered
> down. For forced ejection, the driver has to error the command.

Then let the driver tell the upper layers whether the device is still
connected or not.

Regards
Oliver