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

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On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, James Bottomley wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Sort of; however, there should only really be one cc/ua before the TUR
> goes through.  Also, TUR produces almost no conditions that would be
> retryable in scsi_decide_disposition() and the scsi_execute sends it
> down with REQ_FAILFAST anyway, so it's really not used much.
> 
> > For another, why do you want to swallow a UNIT_ATTENTION?  Shouldn't 
> > that be up to the code calling scsi_test_unit_ready()?
> 
> No, that's a bug in the old code.  UA doesn't necessarily mean there's a
> media change.  It could be asserted for a whole host of reasons.  Until
> we get proper UA signalling, we need to resend the TUR so we get the
> correct media status and discard the UA (Even if the device is asserting
> UA for media change reasons, it will still give the correct sense code
> response to the following TUR).

Well then, the patch appears good.  I haven't been able to test it 
because it's based against a source tree I haven't got.  Can you 
provide an equivalent patch against 2.6.24-rc4?

Alan Stern

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