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Re: [PATCH v3 23/77] ncr5380: Always retry arbitration and selection

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On 12/22/2015 02:18 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
> If NCR5380_select() returns -1, it means arbitration was lost or selection
> failed and should be retried. If the main loop simply terminates when there
> are still commands on the issue queue, they will remain queued until they
> expire.
>
> Fix this by clearing the 'done' flag after selection failure or lost
> arbitration.
>
> The "else break" clause in NCR5380_main() that gets removed here appears
> to be a vestige of a long-gone loop that iterated over host instances.
> See commit 491447e1fcff ("[PATCH] next NCR5380 updates") in
> history/history.git.
>
> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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[PATCH v3 23/77] ncr5380: Always retry arbitration and selection Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> - 2015-12-22 03:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 23/77] ncr5380: Always retry arbitration and selection Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2015-12-22 08:20 +0100

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