On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
> Actually, the night train is a good place to do coding. I know this
> compiles, but could someone check it out? It's the form I think we
> should do, since the ASC/ASCQ codes for esoteric conditions which we
> might eventually check for are different for CDs and removable discs.
This part is puzzling:
> + /* try to eat the UNIT_ATTENTION if there are enough retries */
> + do {
> + result = scsi_execute_req(sdev, cmd, DMA_NONE, NULL, 0, sshdr,
> + timeout, retries);
> + } while ((driver_byte(result) & DRIVER_SENSE) &&
> + sshdr && sshdr->sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION &&
> + --retries);
For one thing, you've using retries to control both an outer loop and
an inner loop -- meaning the total number of attempts could be on the
order of retries**2.
For another, why do you want to swallow a UNIT_ATTENTION? Shouldn't
that be up to the code calling scsi_test_unit_ready()?
Alan Stern
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