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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Ben Efros <ben@pc-doctor.com>,
	Josua Dietze <digidietze@draisberghof.de>,
	fangxiaozhi <huananhu@huawei.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Blemings <hugh@blemings.org>
Subject: Re: USB serial regression 2.6.31.1 -> 2.6.31.2 [PATCH]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:19:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255382386.2192.125.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0910121052550.11420-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 10:58 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Except that this is wrong.  We can retry if temp_result == 
> USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_FAILURE, but we should not retry if temp_result ==
> USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_ERROR.
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
> P.S.: In case you don't already know...  TRANSPORT_FAILURE means we
> were able to communicate with the device, and it told us that it
> couldn't carry out the command.  TRANSPORT_ERROR means we weren't able
> to communicate with the device.

Ah good, I was wondering about precisely that (discriminating the errors
more intelligently). No point retrying if the device was yanked or went
totally dead.

Cheers,
Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <26767470.564301255277612694.JavaMail.root@mail.pc-doctor.com>
2009-10-11 16:16 ` USB serial regression 2.6.31.1 -> 2.6.31.2 [PATCH] Ben Efros
2009-10-12  5:44   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-12 14:58     ` Alan Stern
2009-10-12 15:12       ` Matthew Dharm
2009-10-12 15:18       ` Ben Efros
2009-10-12 21:19       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-10-13  4:53       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-13 14:03         ` Alan Stern
2009-10-13 23:30           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-14  2:29             ` Greg KH
     [not found] <19395543.564391255279074897.JavaMail.root@mail.pc-doctor.com>
2009-10-11 16:38 ` Ben Efros
2009-10-11 20:51   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-12  1:54     ` Alan Stern
2009-10-12  3:28       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-12 14:27         ` Alan Stern

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