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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: thockin@sun.com (Tim Hockin)
Cc: andre@linux-ide.org, alan@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  IDE configurable max failures
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:45:55 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107100945.f6A9jte04637@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B4AA8EB.D1F6947C@sun.com> from "Tim Hockin" at Jul 10, 2001 12:04:11 AM

> Attached is a small patch to add a configurable maximum failure count for
> IDE drives.  It has been very useful for us.

It doesnt do what you think or want I suspect

> Please let me know if there is any reason this can not be included in the
> mainline kernel.

Linus please dont apply this one. A correct ide retry patch is pending
merging from -ac. One that properly resets the ide state machines and 
requeues the I/O



      reply	other threads:[~2001-07-10  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-10  7:04 [PATCH] IDE configurable max failures Tim Hockin
2001-07-10  9:45 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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