From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] saved and restore result for timed out commands Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:00:47 -0500 Message-ID: <1117659647.5047.52.camel@mulgrave> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:65168 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261238AbVFAVAx (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:00:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: Patrick Mansfield , Doug Gilbert , SCSI development list 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 J=F6rg Schilling (author of the cdrecord package, a wide= ly-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 t= he > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html