On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:49 -0800, Mark Haverkamp wrote: > James, > > Some months ago, I had problems with a mis-behaving disk that failed > domain validation on a fusion card resulting in an infinite loop of > domain validation. At the time Eric proposed a patch to the mptspi > driver to reload devices with parameters previously negotiated when a > reset occurred. You indicated that a more generic solution should be > done. > > This patch updates spi_dv_device_internal() to check if domain > validation has already been performed on a device and just sets it > previously negotiated parameters. This solved the "infinite domain > validation" loop for me when a reset is performed as a result of command > timeout with the mis-behaving device. Er,but this code basically disabled domain revalidation after a reset, doesn't it? If we could do it that way, we could simply take the calls to spi_dv_device() out of the fusion driver and instead set the parameters up in its place without having to modify the transport class. James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
