The following two patches address the hang issue being observed with Bart's patch on powerpc. The first patch moves the initialization of jiffies_at_alloc from scsi_init_command to scsi_init_rq, and ensures we don't zero jiffies_at_alloc in scsi_init_command. The second patch saves / restores the retry counter in scsi_init_command which lets us go through scsi_init_command for retries and not forget why we were there.
These patches have only been boot tested on my Power machine with ipr to ensure they fix the issue I was seeing. -Brian -- Brian King Power Linux I/O IBM Linux Technology Center
