From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 12:32:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328D437B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A0143E77 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:32:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9TKWDrF097532; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:32:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: David Schultz Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:30:53 PST." <20021029203053.GA21387@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:32:13 +0100 Message-ID: <97531.1035923533@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021029203053.GA21387@HAL9000.homeunix.com>, David Schultz writes: >Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp : >> In message <20021029185337.GA21064@HAL9000.homeunix.com>, David Schultz writes: >> >> >IMO, the retry-forever bug is the >> >real problem, but I'm a bit skeptical that it's easy to solve >> >safely. >> >> Just revert the commit which added it recently. > >Recently? I know that the bug was present at least six months >ago, and probably earlier as well. That's "recently" enough for me :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message