Annoying SCSI waiting...

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:13:54PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:11:18PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > 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
> 
> What do you put in 'SCSI'?  Not all SCSI devices work on all our
> platforms.  Things got messy in NOTES when we tried to share too much.  I
> don't think SCSI could have much more beyond 'scbus ch da sa cd pass

My initial thought a few days ago was that we could put everything that
ought to be portable (i.e. is uses a PCI bus as isn't horriably badly
written) in there and if it doesn't work on a specific platform, we put
an appropratly commented "nodevice" entry in that file.  Now I think
that isn't a complete solution since we've got a fair number of 32-bit
only device drivers, but I suppose we could deal with a shared list of
drivers broken in a particular way.  Too much of that starts to get
hackish though.  Perhaps config needs to know a bit more the
architectures.

-- Brooks

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