Bart, >> (1) Accept that some error handling steps are skipped if a user sets the >> device state to "blocked". >> (2) Prevent users to change the device state to "blocked". We can't really remove an exposed interface. So at the very least the string "blocked" would have to trigger something semantically close. Quiesce, maybe? >> (3) Split SDEV_BLOCK into SDEV_BLOCKED_BY_USER and >> SDEV_BLOCKED_BY_TRANSPORT and only skip sending EH commands to the >> device in state SDEV_BLOCKED_BY_TRANSPORT. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
