SCSI_DELAY cleanup

[Matthew Jacob]

  It would be an effective behavioral change for those of us who remove 
that line.
Personally, I think 5 seconds is too long- even 2 seconds is more than 
adequate even for moderately old 'other' hardware like scanners.

For -current, why don't you simply remove all of the config lines and 
leave the default at 2000ms?

On 10/19/2010 3:34 AM, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Mon Oct 18 10, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>>   What problem are you solving by this change?
> code cleanup.
>
> the scsi delay value currently defaults to 2000ms. however that doesn't make
> sense, since on almost all platforms it gets set to 5000ms in the default
> config. what's the purpose of having a default value, if it is much more often
> overwritten than actually used?
>
> that's why this patch changes the default scsi delay value to 5000ms. now all
> of the lines that were setting the scsi delay value to 5000ms can be removed.
> also default values should be chosen very conservatively. users can always
> lower the delay value via their kernel config or sysctl.
>
> cheers.
> alex