From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: scsi inquiry timeout config option Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:44:28 -0500 Message-ID: <4341982C.8070702@us.ibm.com> References: <200510032026.j93KQViR015934@d01av04.pok.ibm.com> <20051003203924.GS29826@austin.ibm.com> Reply-To: brking@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:65236 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932433AbVJCUoe (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:44:34 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j93Kft1m008196 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:41:55 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j93KjFQm538698 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:45:15 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j93KiWPg028554 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:44:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20051003203924.GS29826@austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linas Cc: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org linas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:26:30PM -0500, brking@us.ibm.com was heard to remark: > >>Add a .config option to default the scsi scan inquiry timeout. >>Due to a broken device (SCSI/ATA converter card) that is very >>common on IBM iSeries/pSeries machines, these architectures >>need a longer default inquiry timeout. > > > Hmm, I thought I fixed this several yeas ago. I guess it didn't > stay fixed? Some distro kernels have the default inquiry timeout changed for ppc64, but mainline only has the module parameter. -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center