[PATCH] s390: fba dasd i/o errors
authorHorst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:45:02 +0000 (11:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:26:05 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
The FBA discipline does not use retries for failed requests.  A request fails
after the first unsuccessful start attempt.  There are some rare conditions
(e.g.  CIO path recovery) in which the start of an i/o on a fba device can
fail.  A tiny amount of retries is therefore reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c

Simple merge