Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1 | Date | Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:49:14 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 16:56 schrieb James Bottomley: > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:44, Mark Lord wrote: > > There seem to be other holes/races in this and related code. > > > > The QStor driver implements hot insertion/removal of drives. > > > > One thing it has to cope with at present is, after notifying > > the mid-layer that a drive has been removed, the mid-layer calls > > back with a synchronize-cache command for that drive.. > > This is expected behaviour. For orderly removal an cache sync command > must be sent to drives with a writeback cache before they're powered > down. For forced ejection, the driver has to error the command.
Then let the driver tell the upper layers whether the device is still connected or not.
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