Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932182AbVIGSOp (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932179AbVIGSOo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:14:44 -0400 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:45966 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932150AbVIGSOn (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:14:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI merge for 2.6.13 From: James Bottomley To: Patrick Mansfield Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List , Jens Axboe In-Reply-To: <20050907174744.GA13172@us.ibm.com> References: <1126053452.5012.28.camel@mulgrave> <20050907174744.GA13172@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:14:10 -0500 Message-Id: <1126116850.4823.31.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 23 On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:47 -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > The scsi_execute() retries argument is still not used. Yes, Jens was thinking about how to add this to the block layer. > How is this going to work? > > For example, multiple unit attentions (power on / reset) during scanning. > We send REPORT LUN, READ CAPACITY, etc., and would not retry if we got a > unit attention. Well ... all of the places we were specifying retries mostly had three of them, so the scsi_request_fn() actually hard codes three retries. A hack, but it works until the real method is in place. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/