Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI merge for 2.6.13

From: Patrick Mansfield
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 12:57:03 EST


On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:37:32PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> This should be the entire contents of the SCSI tree I've been saving.
> It also includes Jens' send SCSI requests via bios tree that he, Mike
> Christie and I have been working on.
>
> The patch is available here:
>
> master.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/scm/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6.git
>

> o convert ch to use scsi_execute_req
> o convert sr to scsi_execute_req
> o convert sd to scsi_execute_req (and update the scsi_execute_req API)
> o convert SPI transport class to scsi_execute
> o convert the remaining mid-layer pieces to scsi_execute_req

The scsi_execute() retries argument is still not used.

How is this going to work?

For example, multiple unit attentions (power on / reset) during scanning.
We send REPORT LUN, READ CAPACITY, etc., and would not retry if we got a
unit attention.

-- Patrick Mansfield
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