Annoying SCSI waiting...

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:11:18PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> >
> >Scott Long wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>For just about everyone, a value of 2 seconds or less is just fine.
> >>For those with tape drives, changers, and (less likely) cdroms, a
> >>long delay after reset is still quite necessary.  There are two knobs
> >>to adjust this, and I'd like GENERIC to remain compatible.  It's 15
> >>seconds, not 2 minutes.  You get a longer delay that that just trying
> >>to set up the inital page tables on a large memory machine! 
> >
> >
> >
> >for some reason the actual wait time always seems t be twice the
> >nominated one for me..
> >i.e. 15 seconds really seems ot take 30 seconds etc.
> 
> I'm willing to crank it down to 5 sec in HEAD.  However, before I go 
> changing a whole bunch of identical lines in nearly identical GENERIC
> files, I'd like to see GENERIC get split into several sub-modules that
> live in /sys/conf and can be included instead of constantly duplicated.
> i.e.
> 
> /sys/conf:
> /SCSI
> /BLOCK
> /NIC
> /USB
> /FIREWIRE
> 
> etc.

Some form of this seems reasionable.  I pity the person who has to fight
that battle over which bucket goes where though. :-)

> Again, only for HEAD, not for RELENG_5.  Thoughts?

That's fine with me.  I'd even go so far as to say that bumping the
number for anything that wasn't a completly propriotary device would be
fine with me.

-- Brooks

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