On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 14:45 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > Has there been any more progress on this issue? Well, the patch is in scsi-misc, if that's what you're asking. > I spoke with Jörg Schilling (author of the cdrecord package, a widely-used > sg client) and he said that failed operations should be retried > automatically if the command had not gotten as far as being sent on the > bus -- e.g., if the host adapter driver's queue was full. But if the > command did get sent to the device then any subsequent failure should be > reflected back to the client with no retrys. That's pretty much what we do now ... with the exception of QUEUE_FULL and BUSY handling. What's the actual problem you were discussing? James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
