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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Mark Lord <lsml@rtr.ca>, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1
Date: 05 Oct 2004 11:07:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096992458.2173.35.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410051801.03677.oliver@neukum.org>

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:01, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Why is it in any way difficult to decide whether to issue a command in the
> first place? The command is generated upon being notified by the lower layer.
> There is no issue of synchronisation here. It is simply stupid to give
> commands that are bound to fail, if the information is already available.

a) we don't know that they are ... for notified ejection they will
succeed.

b) The scsi bus is a scanned model ... drivers must be prepared to
accept commands for non-existent devices. How does the removal case
differ from the never present case?

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-28 20:03 Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1 Alan Cox
2004-09-29 14:11 ` James Bottomley
2004-09-29 13:24   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-29 14:34     ` James Bottomley
2004-09-29 14:27   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-05 11:49   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-10-05 13:56     ` James Bottomley
2004-10-05 14:44       ` Mark Lord
2004-10-05 14:56         ` James Bottomley
2004-10-05 15:46           ` Mark Lord
2004-10-05 15:49           ` Oliver Neukum
2004-10-05 15:54             ` James Bottomley
2004-10-05 15:57               ` Mark Lord
2004-10-05 16:01                 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-05 16:53                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-05 16:01               ` Oliver Neukum
2004-10-05 16:07                 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-10-05 16:26                   ` Oliver Neukum
2004-10-05 16:38                     ` James Bottomley

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