Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure

Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15T15:40:04Z

> to me it somewhat sounds like the wrong approach.
> I'm all for the LLDD to be able to influence the timeout value, but I
> consider it a bad mistake to make every driver reinvent timeout
> *handling*.

This has very little to do with the timeout _value_, and it has
all to do with *recovery* which is a beast on its own as far as transport
protocols are concerned, especially over non-native interconnects (iSCSI, USB,
RDMA). I believe I did mention this at the end of the text.
(mea culpa it was kind of a long text)

--
Luben