Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure

Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15T16:08:06Z

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:57:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:48:45AM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> > This really isn't anything new or paramount. It's just a simple
> > extension, marked OPTIONAL, that only *capable* drivers should use.
> > (i.e. the aic7xxx drivers, maybe some FC and USB).
> >
> > So it's not really that big of a deal, but does wonders to
> > SCSI Core in terms of recovery time and *uninterruptible*
> > IO.
>
> Well, the question is always what is so special about your driver that
> it doesn't benefit from beeing in a common library. I've pulled more crap
> out of individual drivers than I'd ever want to imagine, and because of
> that I'm pretty much allergic against giving driver writers more control
> then nessecary.

I agree with Christoph; if it makes sense then it makes sense in the common
layer, not so much in the hardware driver.

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