Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:20:21 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Annoying SCSI waiting... Message-ID: <20041022232021.GB27956@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <41799396.9090307@freebsd.org> References: <417960C2.8040007@freebsd.org> <20041022194008.GA23778@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41796396.5070804@freebsd.org> <p06110423bd9f1b6312ed@[128.113.24.47]> <41796D6D.7000108@freebsd.org> <41799315.70201@elischer.org> <41799396.9090307@freebsd.org>
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--tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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!=20 > > > > > > > >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. >=20 > I'm willing to crank it down to 5 sec in HEAD. However, before I go=20 > 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. >=20 > /sys/conf: > /SCSI > /BLOCK > /NIC > /USB > /FIREWIRE >=20 > 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFBeZW1XY6L6fI4GtQRAnHUAJdKAdsVisJmbO9ox0nkBiRIimGbAKC+Mw2J +NYPNLACSNuau/yK/BKgDA== =4mo9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye--
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