nvme device timeout

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Mar 29 04:06:59 PDT 2016


On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:04:51AM +0000, Judy Brock-SSI wrote:
> I think controllers that need it won't know they need it (like Keith hypothesized, will have an unknowing reliance on polling for completions during probe) and so a quirk flag won't do a lot of good.
> Seems like it makes sense to put it back in to avoid breaking HW that do need it if there is not a compelling functional reason not to do so. Since 4.6 is still in RC stage, maybe it could be put back into 4.6.

It's not about not knowing - these controllers are broken plain and
simple and need to be fixed.  It's the same as we do for all kinds of
USB crap in SCSI - we don't simple tolerate broken behavior but instead
require a quirk for it.



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