On 6/6/05, Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jim Ramsay wrote:
> > The driver then waits via a wait_for_completion apparently waiting for
> > the PCI card to throw an interrupt so it can continue. However, I
> > never see this interrupt generated, and the driver code waits forever.
>
>
> This is a known bug that definitely needs fixing:
>
> (to ATA developers)
> Any time an ATA command is issued outside of the SCSI layer, we need to
> employ a timer to time out commands.
>
> Since most commands are done within the SCSI layer, which provides a lot
> of error handling apparatus, most commands properly time out. The ones
> during probe - IDENTIFY DEVICE, set xfer mode, etc. - do not have such a
> timer.
So is this an issue with the sata_promise.c driver, or the
libata-core.c? Which one should implement the timeout?
What would you suggest as a workaround or a proper fix?
--
Jim Ramsay
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
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