Re: [PATCH] fix sym2 negotiation

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> This broken chip seems to be so popular on PPC64 that the arch maintainers
> want a PPC64 specific default. Oh well ...
> 
> +/* Some AChip ARC765 based DVD-ROM's take 15 or more seconds
> + * to reset.  A scan will fail if made right after a reset.
> + * It's completely broken device behaviour: SCSI specification
> + * says devices need to be able to respond to INQUIRY always
> + * (after a selection timeout ... of 250ms).
> + */
> +#ifdef __powerpc64__
> +static unsigned int scsi_inq_timeout = SCSI_TIMEOUT/HZ+25;
> +#else
>  static unsigned int scsi_inq_timeout = SCSI_TIMEOUT/HZ+3;
> +#endif
>  
>  module_param_named(inq_timeout, scsi_inq_timeout, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(inq_timeout, 

How about hacking the ppc64 bootloader to always pass inq_timeout=30 instead?

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