From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow drivers to hook into watchdog timeout Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:59:09 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040122135909.B11283@infradead.org> References: <20040120132052.GA6740@lst.de> <20040120155320.GA1478@beaverton.ibm.com> <20040120160058.GA8924@lst.de> <20040120164711.GA1628@beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:21769 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266234AbUAVN7O (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:59:14 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040120164711.GA1628@beaverton.ibm.com>; from andmike@us.ibm.com on Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:47:11AM -0800 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, gibbs@scsiguy.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:47:11AM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote: > I assume the wrapper would only help if we went the direction of having > the LLDD call __scsi_done directly under some recovery case? That's the case we'd use it for. Whether it's a good thing is a different question. At least with the current SCSI code it probably creates more problems than it could solve. This whole thread is really just trying to fish for the requirement from the driver writers. And the maintainers of the driver that could benefit from those unfortunately didn't answer yet..