Re: [PATCH 1/6] mpt fusion - fibre channel target discovery prematurely terminates

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On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:59 -0500, Michael Reed wrote:
> mpt_config() can return EAGAIN.  When this happens, fibre channel target
> discovery can prematurely terminate with fewer than the total number of
> targets discovered.  This patch detects EAGAIN and reschedules the scan
> work.
> 
> Generally, this situation only occurs when the lsiutil program is being
> used to reset the board.

mpt_config() only returns EAGAIN when it's out of message frames.  That
should be a very transient condition, so if this rarely occurs anyway,
why not just put an msleep(10) on the condition and then retry?  It
would save all the requeue logic.

James


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