Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1

[Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>]

Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 18:07 schrieb James Bottomley:
> 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.

Yes, that is why I proposed that you let the lower levels tell you whether
the devices in questions are still operative or not.

> 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?

It doesn't. But that doesn't explain why you want to issue the command
in all cases, even if we coule easily tell you whether it makes sense or
not? It makes no sense to me to throw away information you already have.

	Regards
		Oliver