Re: [2.6.14-rc1] sym scsi boot hang

Anton Blanchard
2005-09-16T10:31:57Z

Hi,

> OK, my fault. Your fix is almost correct .. I was going to do this
> eventually, honest, because there's no need to unprep and reprep a
> command that comes in through scsi_queue_insert().
>
> However, I decided to leave it in to exercise the scsi_unprep_request()
> path just to make sure it was working. What's happening, I think, is
> that we also use this path for retries. Since we kill and reget the
> command each time, the retries decrement is never seen, so we're
> retrying forever.
>
> This should be the correct reversal.

Thanks James, that did the trick.

Anton