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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] zfcp: fix reaction on bit error theshold notification with adapter close
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:26:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1tv8stj87.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191001154208.GB3523275@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Tue, 1 Oct 2019 17:42:08 +0200")


Greg,

> Ok, then why make this a module option that you will have to support
> for the next 20+ years anyway if you feel this fix is the correct way
> that it should be done instead?

I agree.

Why not just shut FCP down unconditionally on excessive bit errors?
What's the benefit of allowing things to continue? Are you hoping things
will eventually recover in a single-path scenario?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-24 16:06 [PATCH] zfcp: fix reaction on bit error theshold notification with adapter close Steffen Maier
     [not found] ` <20190925224305.00183208C3@mail.kernel.org>
2019-09-26 11:00   ` Steffen Maier
2019-10-01  3:49 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-10-01 10:49   ` [PATCH v2] " Steffen Maier
2019-10-01 14:14     ` Greg KH
2019-10-01 15:07       ` Steffen Maier
2019-10-01 15:42         ` Greg KH
2019-10-01 18:26           ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2019-10-02  8:31             ` Steffen Maier
2019-10-04  1:47               ` Martin K. Petersen

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