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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)
commitfd57bad656b04a98388d87f6628b3ccba88e1061
tree65091f65021d685a64a7ed846811dbd0f0301668
parentd175338775b95984d4e677b005007a9c0188c6a4
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