Re: [PATCH] saved and restore result for timed out commands

James Bottomley
2005-06-01T21:00:53Z

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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