Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix HDIO_DRIVE_RESET handling

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Elias Oltmanns wrote:
> "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> > I don't see why you think it's "hard". We have timeout handlers for many
> >
> >>> > commands and those reset/abort just fine.
> >>>
> >>> They are different beasts from user-space initiated abort operation
> >>
> >> No they are not. They are the *same* thing in every respect.
> >>
> >> You have the drive in an unknown state, you want it back. If your drive
> >> lost a command due to noise or a firmware flaw you have no idea about the
> >> state it is actually in (supposed to be is irrelevant)
> >
> > I generally agree with you w.r.t. to drive side of the operations but
> > the drive is only part of the equation (the host and the request states
> > are the others) so 'supposed to be is' is quite relevant.
> >
> > Also abort request can happen i.e. while the command is being prepared
> > & issued (it is done without ide_lock being taken and the timeout is not
> > even armed yet) so there are additional issues to take care of.
> 
> Yes there are. Still, I think it should be feasible which is why I
> personally would prefer to drop the second patch in the series for the
> time being. But then I can keep it around for reference locally and the
> original infrastructure can be found in the history after all.
> 
> Even though the patch series currently doesn't fully restore the
> intended functionality, I'd like to merge it now. Command aborting

Thanks, I applied everything and queued it for 2.6.27.

[ including patch #2, we should re-add aborting when fixed/necessary ]

> didn't work reliably (if at all) before and now, at least, a simple
> ioctl won't harm a healthy system anymore. Since I think that we can add
> command aborting back later, I'd like to keep the HDIO_DRIVE_RESET ioctl
> even if it should currently be superfluous given SG_IO.

SG_IO ATA pass-through is unsupported currently in drivers/ide/
(though nowadays it should be quite easy to add it if somebody is
interested) so it is indeed the best to leave the ioctl for now.

Bart
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