From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: Converting ipr to use ata_port_operations->error_handler Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 09:12:32 -0500 Message-ID: <57470450.3070000@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:55089 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753721AbcEZOMj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2016 10:12:39 -0400 Received: from localhost by e32.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:12:36 -0600 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , linux-ide On 05/25/2016 02:32 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Brian. > > So, of all the ata drivers, ipr seems to be the only driver which > doesn't implement ata_port_opeations->error_handler and thus depends > on the old error handling path. I'm wondering whether it'd be possible > to convert ipr to implement ->error_handler and drop the old path. > Would that be difficult? Last time I looked at that there were a number of challenges in doing that, but let me take another look and see if we can figure out a way to do that. Thanks, Brian -- Brian King Power Linux I/O IBM Linux Technology Center