Subject: Re: XS_SELTIMEOUT
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2002 17:25:22
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:07:02PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Are there any objections to making the XS_SELTIMEOUT case the same as
> XS_TIMEOUT? (i.e., if there retries, retry the command that failed instead
> of just returning an EIO)?
>
> There could be a number reasons that selection failed (temporarily)- and this
> is just for SPI (regular old SCSI). For Fibre Channel, this could happen a
> lot.
Seems fine to me ... but wouldn't XS_SELTIMEOUT be a good reason to
automatically config_detach() a device?
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>