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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:22:54 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: LINT not up to date
Message-ID:  <19980917132254.B4420@nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809172017.OAA05007@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 02:17:00PM -0600
References:  <19980917130437.A4237@nuxi.com> <199809172017.OAA05007@panzer.plutotech.com>

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> > > options         SCSI_DELAY=8000 # Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device
...
> #error "SCSI_DELAY is in milliseconds, not seconds!  Please use a larger value"

I am kinda wondering why this gratuitous change even took place.  Couldn't
the *software* made the conversion?  Why the change on the user interface
(of kernel building)?

People thing easily in seconds.  Not so well in milliseconds.  I could
see someone getting confused on how many millisecs in a second and use
"800" which would fly under your radar, but be even quicker than the
default.  (it's not too late to change back... :))

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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