svn commit: r199050 - in head/sys: conf dev/ata

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 8 14:40:32 UTC 2009


Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:33:19PM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Author: mav
>> Date: Sun Nov  8 14:33:19 2009
>> New Revision: 199050
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199050
>>
>> Log:
>>   Introduce define and kernel option ATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT to control ATA(4)
>>   command timeout.
> 
> Why is this a compile-time option ? Having to recompile kernel for this
> is too much, IMHO. It should be loader tunable + sysctl, isn't it.

As I have told once, I think it is not a thing that should be often
tuned by end-user, especially in real-time. I just turned it into macro,
as some people complain about using numerous equal numeric constants.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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