Re: [patch] SCSI: early detection of medium not present, updated

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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, James Bottomley wrote:

> Actually, the night train is a good place to do coding.  I know this
> compiles, but could someone check it out?  It's the form I think we
> should do, since the ASC/ASCQ codes for esoteric conditions which we
> might eventually check for are different for CDs and removable discs.

This part is puzzling:

> +	/* try to eat the UNIT_ATTENTION if there are enough retries */
> +	do {
> +		result = scsi_execute_req(sdev, cmd, DMA_NONE, NULL, 0, sshdr,
> +					  timeout, retries);
> +	} while ((driver_byte(result) & DRIVER_SENSE) &&
> +		 sshdr && sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION &&
> +		 --retries);

For one thing, you've using retries to control both an outer loop and 
an inner loop -- meaning the total number of attempts could be on the 
order of retries**2.

For another, why do you want to swallow a UNIT_ATTENTION?  Shouldn't 
that be up to the code calling scsi_test_unit_ready()?

Alan Stern

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