Re: [PATCH 7/13]: PCI Err: Symbios SCSI driver recovery

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 18:50:41 EST


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.


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