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authorMatthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>2005-06-06 17:22:42 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2005-06-27 14:44:03 -0700
commit86dbde9cbdfe8bc2c2dfe5d33027d3acc55e0470 (patch)
tree0dcfa65023ca3df8816bd7bbb42c19b443096a48 /drivers/usb/storage
parent4d07ef762fc8d6d35ecc1511a3b953a733a61a5f (diff)
[PATCH] USB Storage: retry hard errors
This patch started life as as527, and was rediffed by me. Since the IDE interface doesn't convey much information about types of errors, many USB-IDE adapters report all low-level errors with SK = 0x04, which is supposed to be used only for non-recoverable errors. As a result the SCSI midlayer doesn't retry the command. But quite often a retry would succeed, whereas an unnecessary retry doesn't really hurt anything. This patch uses a recently-implemented flag to tell the SCSI midlayer that such hardware errors should be retried. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/storage')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
index da2bfa944b9..af294bb68c3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c
@@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ static int slave_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev)
* If this device makes that mistake, tell the sd driver. */
if (us->flags & US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY)
sdev->fix_capacity = 1;
+
+ /* USB-IDE bridges tend to report SK = 0x04 (Non-recoverable
+ * Hardware Error) when any low-level error occurs,
+ * recoverable or not. Setting this flag tells the SCSI
+ * midlayer to retry such commands, which frequently will
+ * succeed and fix the error. The worst this can lead to
+ * is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */
+ sdev->retry_hwerror = 1;
+
} else {
/* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages