Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure

Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15T15:57:18Z

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.