Re: [PATCH] Format Unit can take many hours

Ricky Beam
2004-05-11T17:00:12Z

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Bob Tracy wrote:
>Moreover, it simply "feels" wrong to define a constant for something
>that isn't... The quick fix of increasing the timeout doesn't address
>the underlying issue of how long a format should take, and as Ricky
>implies, that's probably more the concern of the application rather
>than the driver.

The real problem is a lack of being able to specify a timeout for user
supplied commands. In-kernel drivers can set a command timeout. The
IOCTL interface does not export that capability.

--Ricky