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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] as i/o hang with aacraid driver 2.6.0-test1
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:45:14 -0700
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James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> wrote:
>
> > Nick is probably on a plane by now.  I sent Mark's original one-liner to
> > Linus last night.
> 
> That's not a fix, it only catches one out of the five requeue cases in
> SCSI.

Well yes, it's a bandaid.  Anton was having hangs (sym2 I guess) and
if fixed them, too.

> why don't we just use the deadline elevator until this can be sorted out
> properly?

Could do I guess.  Or people who continue to have problems can boot with
elevator=deadline.