[ Thanks to Jeff
Garzik for this link. ]
“The ‘ATA host state machine,’ the core of the entire driver, is
considered production-stable.“The error handling is very simple, but at this stage that is an
advantage. Error handling code anywhere is inevitably both complex
and sorely under-tested. libata error handling is intentionally
simple. Positives: Easy to review and verify correctness. Never
data corruption. Negatives: if an error occurs, libata will simply
send the error back the block layer. There are limited retries by
the block layer, depending on the type of error, but there is never
a bus reset…”
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