From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262741AbVF2XrU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:47:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262743AbVF2XrT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:47:19 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:28588 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262744AbVF2XrK (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:47:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/13]: PCI Err: Symbios SCSI driver recovery From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Linas Vepstas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, long , Hidetoshi Seto , Greg KH , ak@muc.de, Paul Mackerras , linuxppc64-dev , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, johnrose@us.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20050629204823.GM28499@austin.ibm.com> References: <20050628235919.GA6415@austin.ibm.com> <1120009868.5133.232.camel@gaston> <20050629204823.GM28499@austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:41:14 +1000 Message-Id: <1120088475.31924.23.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:48 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > The only type of "synchronous" error checking that can be done is what > > is proposed by Hidetoshi Seto. You could use his stuff here. > > Yes. However, I will leave this bit in for now, (and mark it as a hack) > until Seto-san's patches are on deck. I'd rather not have a built-in > pre-req right now. No, check for ff's where they don't make sense or add a timeout to the loop. That's the correct solution for now. Ben.