5906 devices also need the short DMA fragment workaround. This patch
makes the necessary change.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
clk_{un}prepare is mandatory for platforms using common clock framework.
Since these drivers are used by SPEAr platform, which supports common
clock framework, add clk_{un}prepare() support for them. Otherwise
the clocks are not correctly en-/disabled and ethernet support doesn't
work.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
__lpc_handle_xmit() has two bugs :
1) It can leak skbs in case TXSTATUS_ERROR is set
2) It can wake up txqueue while no slot was freed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Tested-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Cc: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
lpc_eth does a copy of transmitted skbs to DMA area, without checking
skb lengths, so can trigger buffer overflows :
memcpy(pldat->tx_buff_v + txidx * ENET_MAXF_SIZE, skb->data, len);
One way to get bigger skbs is to allow MTU changes above the 1500 limit.
Calling eth_change_mtu() in ndo_change_mtu() makes sure this cannot
happen.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Cc: Kevin Wells <kevin.wells@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Trying to "modprobe dummy numdummies=30000" triggers :
INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 8} (t=60000 jiffies)
After this splat, RTNL is locked and reboot is needed.
We must call cond_resched() to avoid this, even holding RTNL.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit 3fa2a1df90 (virtio-net: per cpu 64 bit stats (v2)) added a race
on 32bit arches.
We must use separate syncp for rx and tx path as they can be run at the
same time on different cpus. Thus one sequence increment can be lost and
readers spin forever.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
While reworking the r8169 driver a few months ago to perform the
smallest amount of work in the irq handler, I took care of avoiding
any irq mask register operation in the slow work dedicated user
context thread. The slow work thread scheduled an extra round of NAPI
work which would ultimately set the irq mask register as required,
thus keeping such irq mask operations in the NAPI handler.
It would eventually race with the irq handler and delay NAPI execution
for - assuming no further irq - a whole ksoftirqd period. Mildly a
problem for rare link changes or corner case PCI events.
The race was always lost after the last bh disabling lock had been
removed from the work thread and people started wondering where those
pesky "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08" messages came from.
Actually the irq mask register _can_ be set up directly in the slow
work thread.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix kernel-doc warnings in drivers/net/phy:
Warning(drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:109): No description found for parameter 'mdio_bus_np'
Warning(drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:109): Excess function parameter 'mdio_np' description in 'of_mdio_find_bus'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As soon as hardware is notified of a transmit, we no longer can assume
skb can be dereferenced, as TX completion might have freed the packet.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This feature has been reported to be buggy and enabled by
default. We therefore need to disable it manually.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When we remove a key, we put a key index which was supposed
to tell the fw that we are actually removing the key. But
instead the fw took that index as a valid index and messed
up the SRAM of the device.
This memory corruption on the device mangled the data of
the SCD. The impact on the user is that SCD queue 2 got
stuck after having removed keys.
The message is the log that was printed is:
Queue 2 stuck for 10000ms
This doesn't seem to fix the higher queues that get stuck
from time to time.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [2.6.27+]
Reviewed-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
pc could be null if hosttype != BCMA_HOSTTYPE_PCI.
If we are on a device without a pci core this function is called with
pc = null by b43 and brcmsmac. If the host type is PCI we have a pci
core as well and pc can not be null.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this patch fixes kernel Oops on "rmmod b43" if firmware was not loaded:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000088
IP: [<ffffffff8104e988>] drain_workqueue+0x25/0x142
PGD 153ac6067 PUD 153b82067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
My patch
iwlwifi: use correct released ucode version
did not correctly report supported firmware
for the 6035 device. This patch fixes it. The
minimum supported firmware version for 6035
is v6.
Also correct the minimum supported firmware
version for the 6000g2 series of devices.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The station fail average is not updated correctly since the
IEEE80211_STAT_ACK flag is not set when using wmediumd with
mac80211_hwsim. Set this flag when wmediumd indicates that the frame
was successfully transmitted (eventually).
Signed-off-by: Qasim Javed <qasimj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/workqueue.c:2547
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 629, name: wpa_supplicant
2 locks held by wpa_supplicant/629:
#0: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c08b2b84>] rtnl_lock+0x14/0x20
#1: (&trigger->leddev_list_lock){.+.?..}, at: [<c0867f41>] led_trigger_event+0x21/0x80
Pid: 629, comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted 3.3.0-0.rc3.git5.1.fc17.i686
Call Trace:
[<c046a9f6>] __might_sleep+0x126/0x1d0
[<c0457d6c>] wait_on_work+0x2c/0x1d0
[<c045a09a>] __cancel_work_timer+0x6a/0x120
[<c045a160>] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x10/0x20
[<f7dd3c22>] rtl8187_led_brightness_set+0x82/0xf0 [rtl8187]
[<c0867f7c>] led_trigger_event+0x5c/0x80
[<f7ff5e6d>] ieee80211_led_radio+0x1d/0x40 [mac80211]
[<f7ff3583>] ieee80211_stop_device+0x13/0x230 [mac80211]
Removing _sync is ok, because if led_on work is currently running
it will be finished before led_off work start to perform, since
they are always queued on the same mac80211 local->workqueue.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795176
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit efa230f2c6.
BQL doesn't work with how this driver currently only takes TX
interrupts every 1/4 of the TX ring. That behavior needs to be fixed,
but that's a larger non-trivial task and for now we have to revert
BQL support as this makes the device currently completely unusable.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The commit ba27ec66ff fixes the Kconfig of the
driver when built as module allowing to select/unselect
the PCI and Platform modules that are not anymore mutually
exclusive. This patch fixes and guarantees that the driver
builds on all the platforms w/ w/o PCI and when select/unselect
the two stmmac supports. In case of there are some problems
on both the configuration and the pci/pltf registration the
module_init will fail.
v2: set the CONFIG_STMMAC_PLATFORM enabled by default.
I've just noticed that this can actually help on
some configurations that don't enable any STMMAC
options by default (e.g. SPEAr).
v3: change printk level when do not register the driver.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The newer flavors of Yukon II use a different method for receive
checksum offload. This is indicated in the driver by the SKY2_HW_NEW_LE
flag. On these newer chips, the BMU_ENA_RX_CHKSUM should not be set.
The driver would get incorrectly toggle the bit, enabling the old
checksum logic on these chips and cause a BUG_ON() assertion. If
receive checksum was toggled via ethtool.
Reported-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adding device IDs for Aircard 320U and two other devices
found in the out-of-tree version of this driver.
Cc: linux@sierrawireless.com
Cc: Autif Khan <autif.mlist@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Cassidy <tomas.cassidy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 452503ebc (ARM: Orion: Eth: Add clk/clkdev support.) broke
the building of the driver on architectures which don't have clk
support. In particular PPC32 Pegasos which uses this driver.
Add #ifdef around the clk API usage.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patches fixes the driver when built as dynamic module.
In fact, the platform part cannot be built and the probe fails
(thanks to Bob Liu that reported this bug).
v2: as D. Miller suggested, it is not necessary to make the
pci and the platform code mutually exclusive.
Having both could also help, at built time ,to verify that
all the code is validated and compiles fine.
v3: removed wrong Reviewed-by from the patch
Reported-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
cc: Rayagond Kokatanur <rayagond@vayavyalabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The hardware bit IXGBE_RXD_STAT_VP appears to be set even when Rx
stripping is disabled. This results in passing frames up the stack
which do not have the 802.1Q tag stripped but have the tci bits
set as if it was.
Working around this with a check for the feature flag bit. I
would welcome any better ideas or a pointer to exactly which
bits in the hardware register need to be cleared to get the
IXGBE_RXD_STAT_VP bit to be set per data sheet.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Marcus Dennis <marcusx.e.dennis@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
DCB can be used independent of if RX VLAN stripping is enabled
or disabled so remove erroneous check.
Also enable or disable VLAN stripping when features are applied so
hardware and feature flags are in sync.
CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Tested-by: Marcus Dennis <marcusx.e.dennis@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
commit 44abd5c127 introduced NULL pointer
dereferences when attempting to access the check_reset_block function
pointer on 8257x and 80003es2lan non-copper devices.
This fix should be applied back through 3.4.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Otherwise the LEDs stick around and cause issues the
next time around since they're still there but not
really hooked up.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Linus reported that due to mac80211 failing to register
the device (due to WoWLAN) his machine crashed etc. as
we double-freed the vmalloc() firmware area. His patch
to fix it was very similar to this one but I noticed
that there's another bug in the area: we complete the
completion before starting, so since we're running in
a work struct context stop() could be called while in
the middle of start() which will almost certainly lead
to issues.
Make a modification similar to his to avoid the double-
free but also move the completion to another spot so it
is only done after start() either finished or failed so
that stop() can have a consistent state.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is disabled, then iwlwifi doesn't
support suspend/resume handlers and thus mac80211
(correctly) refuses advertising WoWLAN. Disable
WoWLAN in the driver in this case.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
MacBook Pro models with BCM4331 wireless have been found to have the ext
PA lines disabled after resuming from S3 without external power attach.
This causes them to be unable to transmit. Add a workaround to ensure
that the ext PA lines are enabled on BCM4331. Also extend all handling
of ext PA line muxing to BCM43431 as is done in the Broadcom SDK.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925577
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using | with a constant is always true.
Likely this should have be &.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enforcing interface combinations broke uses of hwsim
with multiple virtual interfaces. Advertise that all
combinations are possible to fix this.
Reported-by: Nirav Shah <nirav.j2.shah@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since my commit
iwlwifi: use valid TX/RX antenna from hw_params
the config values are pure overrides, not the
real values for all hardware. Therefore, the
EEPROM TX power reading code checks the wrong
values, it should check the hw_params values.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.4]
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mwifiex uAP supports NL80211_HIDDEN_SSID_ZERO_LEN type of hidden
SSID only. NL80211_HIDDEN_SSID_ZERO_CONTENTS is not supported.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mark bss_config parameters as invalid before setting AP channel.
This prevents from setting invalid parameters while setting AP
channel to FW.
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Change the busy-waiting/udelay to wait_event on outstanding sends.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes the interrupt mask for IC101 A/G devices
and now enables the link/speed/duplex interrupts.
This is done by setting the "INTR pin used" bit and cleaning
all the other bits in the Register 17.
Reported-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Using | with a constant is always true.
Likely this should have be &.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Fix the issue of C_CAN interrupts getting disabled forever when canconfig
utility is used multiple times. According to NAPI usage we disable all
the hardware interrupts in ISR and re-enable them in poll(). Current
implementation calls napi_enable() after hardware interrupts are enabled.
If we get any interrupts between these two steps then we do not process
those interrupts because napi is not enabled. Mostly these interrupts
come because of STATUS is not 0x7 or ERROR interrupts. If napi_enable()
happens before HW interrupts enabled then c_can_poll() function will be
called eventual re-enabling.
This patch moves the napi_enable() call before interrupts enabled.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: AnilKumar Ch <anilkumar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch fixes an interrupt thrash issue with c_can driver.
In c_can_isr() function interrupts are disabled and enabled only in
c_can_poll() function. c_can_isr() & c_can_poll() both read the
irqstatus flag. However, irqstatus is always read as 0 in c_can_poll()
because all C_CAN interrupts are disabled in c_can_isr(). This causes
all interrupts to be re-enabled in c_can_poll() which in turn causes
another interrupt since the event is not really handled. This keeps
happening causing a flood of interrupts.
To fix this, read the irqstatus register in isr and use the same cached
value in the poll function.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: AnilKumar Ch <anilkumar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
This patch fixes an issue with transmit routine, which causes
"can_put_echo_skb: BUG! echo_skb is occupied!" message when
using "cansequence -p" on D_CAN controller.
In c_can driver, while transmitting packets tx_echo flag holds
the no of can frames put for transmission into the hardware.
As the comment above c_can_do_tx() indicates, if we find any packet
which is not transmitted then we should stop looking for more.
In the current implementation this is not taken care of causing the
said message.
Also, fix the condition used to find if the packet is transmitted
or not. Current code skips the first tx message object and ends up
checking one extra invalid object.
While at it, fix the comment on top of c_can_do_tx() to use the
terminology "packet" instead of "package" since it is more
standard.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: AnilKumar Ch <anilkumar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
"Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."
* tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
dm thin: use slab mempools
dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.
Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.
Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:
thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>
Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools
Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:
i) Incremental backups.
By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
the data doesn't change while we back it up.
A short proof of concept script can be found here:
https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb
ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.
iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.
iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
the device. Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.
With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
too. The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.
Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
(that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
milliseconds.
Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
to a path failure. Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
commands). For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
might fail too. It can be determined if the failure happens on the
device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
