> You mean:
>
> static const struct ata_port_operations sil24_ops = {
> ...
> .error_handler = sil24_error_handler,
> ...
> which then calls
> ata_do_eh(ap, ata_std_prereset, sil24_softreset, sil24_hardreset,
> ata_std_postreset);
>
> How to then specify if you just need a softreset? My understanding is
> all those functions get called.
The neccessary parts get called from libata-eh based upon the flags set
by the error code to indicate how to recover.
> Ugh.. I figured, I was just hoping I wouldn't have to deal with that.
> Any idea on what happens to the user process (blocking, etc.) during
> error handling? Surely if a disk needs to be hardreset during a normal
> error, the user process doesn't hang for up to 30 seconds?
It stalls.
Alan
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