linux-kernel - Re: USB serial regression 2.6.31.1 -> 2.6.31.2 [PATCH]

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:19:46 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Ben Efros <ben@...doctor.com>,
	Josua Dietze <digidietze@...isberghof.de>,
	fangxiaozhi <huananhu@...wei.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Blemings <hugh@...mings.org>
Subject: Re: USB serial regression 2.6.31.1 -> 2.6.31.2 [PATCH]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 10:58 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Except that this is wrong.  We can retry if temp_result == 
> USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_FAILURE, but we should not retry if temp_result ==
> USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_ERROR.
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
> P.S.: In case you don't already know...  TRANSPORT_FAILURE means we
> were able to communicate with the device, and it told us that it
> couldn't carry out the command.  TRANSPORT_ERROR means we weren't able
> to communicate with the device.

Ah good, I was wondering about precisely that (discriminating the errors
more intelligently). No point retrying if the device was yanked or went
totally dead.

Cheers,
Ben.


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