Re: [PATCH] Update to ide-scsi error handling

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
10 Mar 2003 23:41:25 +0000


On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 20:58, Willem Riede wrote:
> One of my ATAPI drives developed a real dislike to 2.5.55 and above, which gave
> me plenty of opportunity to improve ide-scsi's error handling :-) .

Cool. I've rewritten the do_reset logic in the 2.5.64-ac code so that it
has a few less races

> To handle ide device resets and be able to wait for them in the scsi context, I
> have changed ide_do_reset and friends in drivers/ide/ide-iops.c to set the busy
> flag on the hwgroup while the reset is in progress.

Duplicated work, but I'm kind of happy because we both agreed on that
part of the solution being safe 8)

> I noticed, that ide-scsi didn't consistently use the printk priorities, so I
> touched that up while I was at it.

Thanks

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