From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265133AbTFYWdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265135AbTFYWdT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:33:19 -0400 Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.131.36]:31710 "EHLO relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265133AbTFYWdO (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:33:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:47:23 -0400 From: Scott McDermott To: Alan Cox Cc: David Dillow , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4.21: kernel BUG at ide-iops.c:1262! Message-ID: <20030625184723.L9583@newbox.localdomain> References: <1056493150.2840.17.camel@ori.thedillows.org> <20030624204828.I30001@newbox.localdomain> <1056513292.3885.2.camel@ori.thedillows.org> <1056542418.2460.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1056542418.2460.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:00:18PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox on Wed 25/06 13:00 +0100: > Its a known problem. There are two approaches. Either > rewrite the ide scsi reset code to use ide_abort > infrastructure or switch ide-scsi back to the old > abort/reset code not new_eh and use SCSI_RESET_PUNT so > that the recovery is all handled by the ide layer. > > For 2.4 the latter may be the best approach, for 2.5 it > has to use new_eh is this what o First crack at fixing the ide reset oopses (me) tries to fix? The CDRW devices that have problems with Test Unit Ready during finalization (like the GCC-4240N) are broken and this won't fix that problem, but the fix you're talking about will stop the kernel from crashing when it happens, do I have that right?