Re: How many retries to allow?

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Alan Stern wrote:
> James and Boaz:
> 
> Here's a question.  Suppose a device returns NOT READY sense key 
> repeatedly.  How long should the request be retried before we give up?  
> If we never give up then the request will never finish, so the caller 
> will hang.
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
I always thought  request->retries was for that. Perhaps I misunderstood.

I think there should be one user settable global counter that will limit
all retries of any kind.

Just my $0.017
Boaz
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