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From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: scsi inquiry timeout config option
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:31:17 -0500
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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