From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:58:15 -0500 From: Daniel Eisenbud To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: suspicious comment in mesh.c and mac53c94.c Message-ID: <20010128155815.A21628@allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu> References: <200101282017.MAA19462@mail.turbolinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200101282017.MAA19462@mail.turbolinux.com>; from brad@turbolinux.com on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:25:07PM -0000 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Both of the SCSI drivers for which the complete SCSI lockup upon trying to burn a CD in DAO mode have been reported have the following comment at the top (that's mesh.c and mac53c94.c, BTW.) /* * To do: * - handle aborts correctly * - retry arbitration if lost (unless higher levels do this for us) */ Does anyone here understand the implications of this? Is it plausibly related to the lockups? Both drivers appear to have been written by Paul Mackerras -- is he active on these lists these days, or should I contact him directly? -Daniel -- Daniel E. Eisenbud eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/