[PATCH] scsi stuff
The patch below cleans up some SCSI stuff. The main purpose is to avoid trying to read the partition table of a removable disk when the drive has told us that no media are present. (Right now we try to read a 4K block and fail and retry and fail, and give an I/O error on the first sector, then try to read the second sector and fail and retry ...) Unused fields sector_bit_size and sector_bit_shift in struct scsi_disk were removed. The field has_part_table (that has nothing to do with partition tables) was renamed to has_been_registered . The field ready was renamed to media_present . The overly long sd_init_onedisk() was split up. When we notice that no media are present anymore, the partitions are removed from /proc/partitions, but the drive remains, with size 0. A future patch will remove the field capacity - there are all too many places where capacities are stored - but the present patch is large enough already. There is also a quite independent patch in scsi_error.c (yesterday someone had an infinite loop retrying to read bad media) - this patch honours the SCpnt->retries. In case you applied this already, just ignore the scsi_error.c part. Also some "Overrides for Emacs" were removed.
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