Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760474AbWLFKs3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 05:48:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760476AbWLFKs3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 05:48:29 -0500 Received: from siolinb.obspm.fr ([145.238.2.18]:49093 "EHLO siolinb.obspm.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760466AbWLFKs2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 05:48:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:48:27 +0100 (CET) From: Etienne.Vogt@obspm.fr Reply-To: Etienne.Vogt@obspm.fr To: linux-scsi cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table In-Reply-To: <20061130232916.6cbd1408.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20061130214716.6306a586.akpm@osdl.org> <117439.97789.qm@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20061130232916.6cbd1408.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 636 Lines: 18 On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > That looks like it prevents the IO error. But why was an IO error causing > an infinite loop? What piece of code was initiating the retries? Maybe it's related to the infinite domain validation retry loop problem I reported on linux-scsi a few weeks ago ? -- Etienne Vogt (Etienne.vogt@obspm.fr) Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France - 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/