Chaitanya Lala wrote: > The libata error recovery tries to reset a port a number > of times and if unsuccessful, gives up. The code does not > thaw the port before it exits. If the bad disk i.e. the disk > that could not be reset is removed and a healthy disk is > inserted, the new disk does not register, since the port is > frozen. This patch fixes the same. Sorry about the long delay but has this actually happen? The rationale for not thawing there was that if the port was behaving erratically, it could cause IRQ storm and thus take the whole controller down and the port can be revived by issuing rescan if the administrator intends to do so. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
