RE: [PATCH V3 1/4] Encapsulate scsi_do_report_luns

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Good point; INQUIRY, REPORT LUNS, REQUEST SENSE, and NOTIFY DATA TRANSFER DEVICE do not report unit attention conditions.

The comment should be changed, since that's not the reason for any retries here:

> +	/*
> +	 * We can get a UNIT ATTENTION, for example a power on/reset, so
> +	 * retry a few times (like sd.c does for TEST UNIT READY).
> +	 * Experience shows some combinations of adapter/devices get at
> +	 * least two power on/resets.
> +	 *
> +	 * Illegal requests (for devices that do not support REPORT LUNS)
> +	 * should come through as a check condition, and will not generate
> +	 * a retry.
> +	 */


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Linton [mailto:jlinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 07 March, 2013 10:07 AM
> To: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
> Cc: Rob Evers; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> bvanassche@xxxxxxx; emilne@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/4] Encapsulate scsi_do_report_luns
> 
> On 3/7/2013 9:47 AM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
> 
> >> +int scsi_do_report_luns(struct scsi_device *sdev, int length, +	 * We
> >> can get a UNIT ATTENTION, for example a power on/reset, so +	 *
> retry a
> >> few times (like sd.c does for TEST UNIT READY). +	 * Experience shows
> >> some combinations of adapter/devices get at +	 * least two power
> >> on/resets. +	for (retries = 0; retries < 3; retries++) { +
> >> SCSI_LOG_SCAN_BUS(3, printk(KERN_INFO "scsi scan: Sending" +
> 			  "
> >> REPORT LUNS to %s (try %d)\n", devname, +
> retries)); +		result =
> >> scsi_execute_req(sdev, scsi_cmd, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, +
> 			  lun_data,
> >> length, &sshdr, +					  SCSI_TIMEOUT + 4 *
> HZ, 3, NULL);
> >
> > There's no guarantee that you'll get no more than two unit attention
> > conditions at any particular time;
> 
> 	Actually, if your getting any unit attentions from a report luns the
> device
> is broken. SAM5 5.14
> 
> "if a REPORT LUNS command enters the enabled command state, the device
> server
> shall process the REPORTS LUNS command and shall not report any unit
> attention
> conditions"
> 
> This is not new behavior either.
> 
> 
> There are a couple other places that say similar things, INQUIRY and REPORT
> LUNS get special status for UA. Which is how you can scan a target/lun
> configuration without interfering with its operation. Personally, I think the
> TUR in the mid layer is incorrect as the TUR functionality needs to be hoisted
> higher up the stack and the mid layer needs to use inquiry to validate device
> communications. (got a patch for that too, but no point in posting it, as it
> will be ignored).
> 

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