From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] saved and restore result for timed out commands
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:00:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117659647.5047.52.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0506011440090.5912-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 14:45 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Has there been any more progress on this issue?
Well, the patch is in scsi-misc, if that's what you're asking.
> I spoke with Jörg Schilling (author of the cdrecord package, a widely-used
> sg client) and he said that failed operations should be retried
> automatically if the command had not gotten as far as being sent on the
> bus -- e.g., if the host adapter driver's queue was full. But if the
> command did get sent to the device then any subsequent failure should be
> reflected back to the client with no retrys.
That's pretty much what we do now ... with the exception of QUEUE_FULL
and BUSY handling. What's the actual problem you were discussing?
James
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-01 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-10 18:51 sg driver and the error handler Alan Stern
2005-05-10 22:58 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-05-11 11:59 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-05-11 16:35 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-05-11 17:45 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-05-11 17:55 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-05-11 18:02 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-05-11 19:43 ` Alan Stern
2005-05-11 16:40 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-05-11 17:14 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-05-16 17:42 ` [PATCH] saved and restore result for timed out commands Patrick Mansfield
2005-05-16 19:42 ` Alan Stern
2005-06-01 18:45 ` Alan Stern
2005-06-01 21:00 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-06-01 21:26 ` Alan Stern
2005-06-01 21:57 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-03 15:21 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-03 15:35 ` Alan Stern
[not found] <20050603160921.GA32212@us.ibm.com>
2005-06-03 16:37 ` Alan Stern
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