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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:26:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI IOCTL: Check for device deletion [was Re:
 __elv_add_request OOPS]
To: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>        SDEV_OFFLINE,           /* Device offlined (by error handling or
>                                 * user request */

So how do you fix the error or online it again? No chance it should
have commands passed to it to do that?

I don't know. My point is that I don't see why we should look at the
state at this point at all. We do that _later_.

                            Linus