Re: SCSI woes (followup)

Russell King
2002-09-25T08:45:52Z

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:47:38PM -0700, Mike Anderson wrote:
> I will try to post my update tomorrow, but it will not mean much to 2.4
> as it is on top of the 2.5 cleanup which is very different from 2.4.

Nevertheless, bounding those retries in 2.4 is a must for stability.
Loops that could become infinite one day almost certainly will at some
point. I think the SCSI subsystem has proven this point in the past. 8/

I've also spotted a few other places that could do with my "restore
Scsi_Cmnd to pristine state after error handling commands have
completed" cleanup in scsi_error.c to ensure that we restore everything
necessary.

I'm putting that at low priority at the moment though.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux