From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Smart Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] qla2xxx: Stall mid-layer error handlers while rport is blocked. Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:24:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4522728B.5000800@emulex.com> References: <20061002185947.GF16536@andrew-vasquezs-computer.local> <11598156511007-git-send-email-andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> <452167C8.3010401@emulex.com> <20061002221424.GP16272@parisc-linux.org> <20061002230531.GB27360@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from emulex.emulex.com ([138.239.112.1]:44744 "EHLO emulex.emulex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932251AbWJCOYe (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:24:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20061002230531.GB27360@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Anderson Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Vasquez , Linux-SCSI Mailing List , James Bottomley Read the following: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115583213624803&w=2 It explains the error window.... -- james Mike Anderson wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:26:00PM -0400, James Smart wrote: >>> - Fix the error handler. (but we all know this is a lot of work, >>> of which none of us have the time to do, nor expect it to >>> be complete in time for our next distro delivery). >> Can't you fix this in the driver instead? Seems to me that >> .eh_timed_out in the SHT would be enough to fix this case. Just keep >> returning EH_RESET_TIMER until the condition expires. > > This is already done in fc_timed_out. > > -andmike > -- > Michael Anderson > andmike@us.ibm.com >