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    SubjectRe: regression: disk error loop (panic?) ide_do_rw_disk-bad:
    On Tue, Jul 17 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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    >
    > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
    > >
    > > The new generic SG layer is CONFIG_SCSI=y "generic" in the current tree.
    >
    > Yeah. I know, I already talked to Jens about it - in order to be generic,
    > the BSG stuff really does end up having to be able to stand on its own,
    > since not everybody wants/needs the whole SCSI layer.

    Fully agree!

    > > > obviously the older SCSI-ioctl layer) it should "just work".
    > >
    > > Agreed but IDE driver has never claimed to have full SAT layer and
    > > full SCSI-ioctl layer support has been provided only for ide-cd.
    >
    > I agree, and understand why it happened, but hope that maybe it can be
    > improved in the future, or at least the error returned earlier so that the
    > request will never even hit the ATA device at all if the IDE layer cannot
    > then handle it.
    >
    > > For now it should be sufficient to revert ide.c chunks of
    > >
    > > commit 3d6392cfbd7dc11f23058e3493683afab4ac13a3
    >
    > Jens?

    Yep, those were probably a little over eager. I can see that this revert
    has already been executed, so perfect.

    Yep, those were probably a little over eager. I can see that this revert
    has already been executed, so perfect.

    --
    Jens Axboe

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