Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:52:53 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>>> Promise ATA ports should always be reset by pdc_reset_port()
>>> when errors are detected, but the recent error reason decoding
>>> update to sata_promise replaced that reset with a freeze.
>>>
>>> This patch changes the error detection to do a reset again.
>>> This makes the error decoding update safer, as it now only
>>> adds error decoding without changing any other behaviour.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Not necessarily NAK'ing but I think it's better to do things like that
>> in EH thread not in the interrupt handler.  Isn't freezing enough in the
>> interrupt handler?
> 
> You're right that the reset should be in the EH code.
> But it isn't right now (the resets done there are generic
> ones, not the Promise-specific one the HW really wants),
> so the error decoding change caused a regression that
> needs to be fixed.
> 
> I intend to change the interrupt handler to just freeze and
> add a Promise-specific reset to EH in a separate patch.

Great, then.  No objection from me.

-- 
tejun
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