On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:01:32PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > ata_exec_internal will preempt the ata link's active_tag and ata port's > qc_active flags, this is OK for error recovery, but if normal code path > wants to use ata_exec_internal, there is a problem: we need to check if > it is OK to issue a new command with the help of port_ops->defer. > > In ZPODD, I'll need to find out the loading mechanism of the ODD by > issuing a GET_CONFIGURATION command. And this command may very well > race with commands issued from SCSI layer. So instead of preempt the > current command, defer the new command if it's not OK to issue it, as > it is always wrong to issue a non-NCQ command when there is command(s) > in processing. Why not do the discovery from EH? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
