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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:04:56 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Toad <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'bad: scheduling while atomic!', preempt kernel, 2.6.1-test11, reading an apparently duff DVD-R
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On Mon, Dec 15 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > >
> > > The old ide-scsi reset function is just terminally broken, there's no way
> > > it can work. This patch _might_ make it work, but is more likely to just
> > > print out what it's trying to do.
> >
> > abort doesn't work well either, and ide-scsi needs to be ported to do
> > proper new error handling.
> 
> Yeah. But at least it doesn't look like it would lock up the machine by
> just being horribly wrong (like the reset code would). After all, all it
> does is to wait for the requests to finish.
> 
> So I'm hoping that with just the reset routine basically removed, the
> thing might limp along. But since I can't test it (and am not that
> horribly motivated by it), I'll just see if somebody reports any success
> at all with that patch.

So you're advocating a bandaid :)

However, if that patch makes ide-scsi limp along (it probably does),
then it will never get fixed for real. I suspect you don't care about
that, neither do I.

-- 
Jens Axboe