From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:15:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:15:03 -0500 Received: from gear.torque.net ([204.138.244.1]:54029 "EHLO gear.torque.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:14:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3C69BDFD.B9D6AA22@torque.net> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:14:37 -0500 From: Douglas Gilbert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.A. Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: new aic7xxx 6.2.5 extra hunks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org J.A. Magallon wrote: > I was trying the new 6.2.5 version of AIC driver from > Justin Gibss, and as always it includes changes to the > generic SCSI layer. Are this really needed ????? (some > look just cosmetic if -> switch...) Yes. The patch to the mid level code is addressing the current incorrect treatment of RECOVERED_ERROR. It is _not_ an error but an advisory that a command (typically a READ) need to be retried (or some other recovery technique) before the data was obtained. It is a "thought you might like to know your disk could be failing (or why I took a long time to read that)" message that the current scsi mid level interpretes as a command failure. While we are more than happy to have Justin Gibbs maintain the aic7xxx driver (and Doug Ledford the older one), when he tries to patch the mid-level he has to compete with lots of other "cooks" (myself included). So his patches to the mid level become harder to apply as time elapses from when he did his patch generation. Please persevere. Doug Gilbert