From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751466AbeDEOmJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:42:09 -0400 Received: from mail-yb0-f171.google.com ([209.85.213.171]:41718 "EHLO mail-yb0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751216AbeDEOmG (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:42:06 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx487PDZkM7IjMiPkusZkeLWHQuI/b8FolAGCdhXg1uP9yiEg/lPExvfM4j2o0WO5tNOxGmnhmQ== Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 07:42:03 -0700 From: Tejun Heo To: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Haberland , Jan Hoeppner , Bart Van Assche Subject: Re: [BISECTED][REGRESSION] Hang while booting EeePC 900 Message-ID: <20180405144203.GC3126663@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com> References: <20180402202951.GE388343@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 09:14:15AM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Just out of interest, does the fact that an abort occurs mean that the > hardware is somehow broken or badly behaved? Not really. For example, ATAPI devices depend on exception handling to fetch sense data as a part of normal operation which is handled by libata exception handler which is invoked by aborting the original command. So, exception handling can often be a part of normal operation. Thanks. -- tejun