From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: scsi inquiry timeout config option
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:31:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4341A325.5070406@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1128373305.5825.3.camel@mulgrave>
James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:26 -0500, brking@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> The inquiry timeout has already been changed a while ago to be a module
> parameter (or kernel parameter) for this very case. Why does it now
> need to be a config option as well?
So that when a distro goes off and builds a PPC64 install kernel,
it can boot on one of these broken DVD-ROMs without requiring each
distro to add special module options inside their initrd.
--
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-03 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-03 20:26 [PATCH 1/1] scsi: scsi inquiry timeout config option brking
2005-10-03 20:39 ` linas
2005-10-03 20:44 ` Brian King
2005-10-03 21:01 ` James Bottomley
2005-10-03 21:31 ` Brian King [this message]
2005-10-03 21:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-03 21:42 ` Brian King
2005-10-03 21:47 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-04 18:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
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