Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] scsi: Detailed I/O errors

Mike Snitzer
2011-01-27T22:54:44Z

On Thu, Jan 27 2011 at 5:41pm -0500,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 17:35 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18 2011 at 7:01am -0500,
> > Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On 01/18/2011 12:33 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> > >
> > > This patchset is primarily for fixing up multipathing,
> > > which has the habit of retrying failed I/Os on the
> > > next path. For some errors this is just pointless
> > > (eg MEDIUM ERROR), for some errors this is the desired
> > > behaviour (namely transport errors), and for others
> > > this is positively damaging (persistent reservation
> > > failures).
> > > Just plain EIO simply don't cover the whole range :-)
> > >
> > > >
> > > > BTW might "vulgo" be "ergo" [Latin: therefore]?
> > > >
> > > Nope. Correct etymology is from 'sermo vulgaris',
> > > ie the language of the common people.
> > > But maybe I should remove it for the next
> > > round to avoid confusion.
> >
> > Is a new round even needed given there haven't been any code issues
> > raised against v4?
> >
> > James, what are your thoughts on this patchset? Would be great to get
> > this in scsi-misc for 2.6.39
> >
> > Please advise,
>
> Well, it covers three subsystems ... I was waiting for Alasdair and Jens
> to ack ... but I bet they each were waiting for the other two to ack ...
>
> So, I'll take it if no objections.

OK, I just sent a mail to jens and alasdair asking the same ;)

Thanks,
Mike