From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757008AbZCYCvn (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753176AbZCYCvd (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:33 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:52094 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752726AbZCYCvc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:32 -0400 Message-ID: <49C99C2F.9010703@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:27 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] libata: Improve timeout handling References: <20090324101952.9152.30261.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090324102324.9152.78865.stgit@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20090324102324.9152.78865.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > From: Alan Cox > > On a timeout call a device specific handler early in the recovery so that > we can complete and process successful commands which timed out due to IRQ > loss or the like rather more elegantly. > > [Revised to exclude the timeout handling on a few devices that inherit from > SFF but are not SFF enough to use the default timeout handler] > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox applied let's see what explodes! :)