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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: jejb@steeleye.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] always handle REQ_BLOCK_PC requests in common code
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:26:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BF5F23.2040804@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060106173407.GA23658@lst.de>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> LLDDs should never see REQ_BLOCK_PC requests, we can handle them just
> fine in the core code.  There is a small behaviour change in that some
> check in sr's rw_intr are bypassed, but I consider the old behaviour
> a bug.
> 
> Mike found this cleanup ooportunity and provdided early patches, so all
> the credit goes to him, even if I redid the patches from scratch beause
> that was easier than forward-porting the old patches.

The point of the hacks in the sd driver was to make
sure SG_IO ioctl commands issued via a sd device node
would not get caught up in the sd driver's error
processing (e.g. retries on MEDIUM ERRORs). Is there
a clean path back for such errors to the SG_IO ioctl
and hence the user space?

The same applies to most of the error processing done
in the midlayer, with TASK SET FULL being a bit of a
grey area.

Doug Gilbert

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-07  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06 17:34 [PATCH] always handle REQ_BLOCK_PC requests in common code Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-07  6:26 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2006-01-07 14:13   ` Christoph Hellwig

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