On 2011-01-27 23:54, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27 2011 at 5:41pm -0500, > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 17:35 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 18 2011 at 7:01am -0500, >>> Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> On 01/18/2011 12:33 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote: >>>> >>>> This patchset is primarily for fixing up multipathing, >>>> which has the habit of retrying failed I/Os on the >>>> next path. For some errors this is just pointless >>>> (eg MEDIUM ERROR), for some errors this is the desired >>>> behaviour (namely transport errors), and for others >>>> this is positively damaging (persistent reservation >>>> failures). >>>> Just plain EIO simply don't cover the whole range :-) >>>> >>>>> >>>>> BTW might "vulgo" be "ergo" [Latin: therefore]? >>>>> >>>> Nope. Correct etymology is from 'sermo vulgaris', >>>> ie the language of the common people. >>>> But maybe I should remove it for the next >>>> round to avoid confusion. >>> >>> Is a new round even needed given there haven't been any code issues >>> raised against v4? >>> >>> James, what are your thoughts on this patchset? Would be great to get >>> this in scsi-misc for 2.6.39 >>> >>> Please advise, >> >> Well, it covers three subsystems ... I was waiting for Alasdair and Jens >> to ack ... but I bet they each were waiting for the other two to ack ... >> >> So, I'll take it if no objections. > > OK, I just sent a mail to jens and alasdair asking the same ;) This one will be easier just to take in the SCSI tree, since there's so little risk for conflict. You can add my acked-by to the patches. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
