If the code is not in place, then array devices will go offline. The array needs to have a 5 minute timeout, all other devices can timeout as per the SCSI subsystem. Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxx] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:28 AM To: Salyzyn, Mark Cc: Christoph Hellwig; jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove scsi_cmnd.eh_state On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:26:24AM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > A bugfix was submitted a couple of weeks ago for the code affected by > Christoph's patch. I suggest the following modification to merge the two > patches: No, it's not a bugfix. Any access of a driver to eh_timeout is a bug. - : 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