Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:00:55AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I think it does hurt. > > - I have seen the case of MPT fusion drvier. It takes significantly more > time to come up if we choose to reset the device during initialization. > One of the reasons that we wait in a tight loop for the controller to > come up after a reset message. > > - Long back we fixed ips driver and I remember that the maintainer had > a similar issue with the reset of device. He did not want to reset the > device in normal boot because otherwise it took significantly longer > for the driver to initialize. > > - Just now Mike also confirmed that resetting the device definitely > hurts in terms of time. In the general case resets are trivial operations. In scsi land things are different. So a solution appropriate to that domain may be appropriate. Eric _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
