On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Below patch pushes the check down to ioctl functions and hopefully should
> cover more ioctl-on-gone-device cases by returning -ENXIO if an attempt
> was made to submit request to a non-running device.
Can we please not duplicate complicated logic like that?
IOW, just make a helper function for it.
That said, isn't this all *exactly* what scsi_prep_state_check() is
supposed to check for? Why isn't that called, or if called, why isn't
it doing the right thing?
Linus
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