From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3651] New: dell poweredge 4600 aacraidPERC 3/Di Container goes offline Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:09:05 +0000 Message-ID: <20041124130904.GA12830@infradead.org> References: <60807403EABEB443939A5A7AA8A7458B694FA8@otce2k01.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:35277 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262678AbUKXNkL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:40:11 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]) by zeus.kernel.org (8.12.11/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAOD9GWo032602 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:09:17 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <60807403EABEB443939A5A7AA8A7458B694FA8@otce2k01.adaptec.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Salyzyn, Mark" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Ryan Anderson , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:59:04AM -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > I dropped Andrew Morton from the direct mail recipients. > > Thanks, made the change in my branch of the code. This adjustment will > probably never be submitted to MarkH since I use it only for debugging > purposes. However, would it be nice if the global scsi timeout could be > `user' adjustable? > > Not that I advocate it as readily accessible, since any storage device > that takes longer than ten seconds is in `trouble', and any timeout > longer than two minutes will no doubt cause servers to go offline on the > internet. Its purpose is only for troubleshooting. Yes, it would probably be nice to have a writeable timeout attribute for the scsi device. Care to submit a patch?