[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers

[Mike Christie]

Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:26:16AM -0500, Michael Christie wrote:
> 
>>Quoting Patrick Mansfield <patmans at us.ibm.com>:
> 
> 
>>>Why can't the retries be passed down via a new blk req->retries?
>>>
>>
>>Is that all that is needed for dm-multipath? I thought this would be a good time
>>to add some code to allow the finer grained control of retries that could also
>>be used by dm and md. For example do you only want to retry certain failures X
>>numbeer of times?
> 
> 
> I was looking/thinking about the scsi_scan retries not multipath.

And I was hoping the same code/framework can be used for scsi, DM, MD, 
SG_IO and all other block layer drivers.