From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b6). Date: 25 Nov 2003 03:21:22 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from jaguar.mkp.net ([192.139.46.146]:2231 "EHLO jaguar.mkp.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262110AbTKYIYw (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 03:24:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Vasquez Cc: Jeremy Higdon , Linux-SCSI , jbarnes@sgi.com, mdr@sgi.com >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Vasquez writes: Andrew> The (additional-)firmware options, perhaps a subset, seem like Andrew> a (possibily) reasonable thing to force at the driver level. Andrew> But, on the otherhand, the retry, delay and timer counts tend Andrew> to be very customer specific based on topology and storage. Andrew> Additionally, the driver already exports via module parameters Andrew> several of the more important driver retry and timer counts, Andrew> i.e. port_down_try_count, link_down_timeout, retry_count (try Andrew> modinfo for a full list). A user can use these facilities to Andrew> perform any fine-tuning. Andrew, I would be a nice feature if all these tuning parameters were exported via sysfs in 2.6 allowing users to modify them at runtime without having to reload the module every time. It would be very useful to test tuning parameters etc. Cheers, Jes