On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:31:10 am Alexander Best wrote: > On Tue Oct 19 10, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > It would be an effective behavioral change for those of us who remove > > that line. > > Personally, I think 5 seconds is too long- even 2 seconds is more than > > adequate even for moderately old 'other' hardware like scanners. > > > > For -current, why don't you simply remove all of the config lines and > > leave the default at 2000ms? > > hmmm...i can only test the delay value on amd64. i was under the impression > that archs like arm and mips need the longer delay. > > also at some locations in the code SCSI_DELAY is being set to 15000. i believe > this is the case when certain drivers (cam, ahb, aha) get loaded as a kernel > module, but i'm not sure. it looks like this: > > .if !defined(KERNBUILDDIR) > opt_scsi.h: > echo "#define SCSI_DELAY 15000" > ${.TARGET} > .endif
I believe this is all old history. SCSI_DELAY used to be set to 15000 in GENERIC many years ago and was lowered to 5000. Most likely these Makefiles were simply not updated at the time. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"