Hannes Reinecke [hare@xxxxxxx] wrote: > > Also (although this might be a bit off topic from your patch), > > can we expand such a distinction to what should be logged? > > Currently, it's difficult to distinguish important SCSI/block errors > > and less important ones in kernel log. > > For example, when I get a link failure on sda, kernel prints something > > like below, regardless of whether the I/O is recovered by multipathing or not: > > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector XXXXX > > > Indeed, when using the above we could be modifying the above > message, eg by > > end_request: transport error, dev sda, sector XXXXX > > or > > end_request: target error, dev sda, sector XXXXX > > which would improve the output noticeable. > > > Setting REQ_QUIET in dm-multipath could mask the message > > but also other important ones in SCSI. > > > Hmm. Not sure about that, but I think the above modifications will > be useful already. > > I'll be sending an updated patch. Hannes, is there an updated version of this patch? It applied fine with Linus git tree with a minor reject! I would like to test an updated version if you have one (the update seems to refer to better logging only, right?). Thanks, Malahal. -- 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
