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    [SCSI] add global timeout to the scsi mid-layer · b21a4138
    James Bottomley authored
    There are certain rogue devices (and the aic7xxx driver) that return
    BUSY or QUEUE_FULL forever.  This code will apply a global timeout (of
    the total number of retries times the per command timer) to a given
    command.  If it is exceeded, the command is completed regardless of its
    state.
    
    The patch also removes the unused field in the command: timeout and
    timeout_total.
    
    This solves the problem of detecting an endless loop in the mid-layer
    because of BUSY/QUEUE_FULL bouncing, but will not recover the device.
    In the aic7xxx case, the driver can be recovered by sending a bus reset,
    so possibly this should be tied into the error handler?
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
    b21a4138
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