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libata-eh don't waste time retrying media errors (v3)
authorMark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Wed, 2 May 2012 19:22:52 +0000 (15:22 -0400)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Mon, 7 May 2012 19:40:34 +0000 (15:40 -0400)
commit969c0dc2e835dcd6d7ad5818ed28388cf768bd7f
tree65091f65021d685a64a7ed846811dbd0f0301668
parent9a1cacdb7065887cdd2f0b4878bf7a634c1d3118
libata-eh don't waste time retrying media errors (v3)

ATA and SATA drives have had built-in retries for media errors
for as long as they've been commonplace in computers (early 1990s).

When libata stumbles across a bad sector, it can waste minutes
sitting there doing retry after retry before finally giving up
and letting the higher layers deal with it.

This patch removes retries for media errors only.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c