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 -- 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