From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FC transport & lpfc : Avoid device offline cases by stalling aborts until device unblocked
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:33:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060206163336.GA23967@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E77970.1030500@emulex.com>
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:29:36AM -0500, James Smart wrote:
> Also, as Christoph just recently removed the eh_timed_out use in the
> megaraid driver - he eliminated the only other (in-kernel) user of this
> interface. Perhaps we should consider changing the design and realign
> the EH_RESET_TIMER functionality to what EH_TRANSPORT_BLOCKED does.
> Thoughts ?
I'd rather kill it completely and make eh_times out a transport callout,
instead of the host template. Right now every FC driver would need an
update to call your routine, and this should really be handled transparently
by the transport class.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-06 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 16:29 [PATCH] FC transport & lpfc : Avoid device offline cases by stalling aborts until device unblocked James Smart
2006-02-06 16:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-02-06 19:11 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-02-07 14:41 ` James Smart
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