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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>
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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

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