On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 04:40:27PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:33:19PM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote: > >> Author: mav > >> Date: Sun Nov 8 14:33:19 2009 > >> New Revision: 199050 > >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199050 > >> > >> Log: > >> Introduce define and kernel option ATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT to control ATA(4) > >> command timeout. > > > > Why is this a compile-time option ? Having to recompile kernel for this > > is too much, IMHO. It should be loader tunable + sysctl, isn't it. > > As I have told once, I think it is not a thing that should be often > tuned by end-user, especially in real-time. I just turned it into macro, Absolutely. I agree with that most users never need this tunable.
> as some people complain about using numerous equal numeric constants. But, why not be somewhat more friendly to a user that already has a problam, and force him to recompile the kernel only to check whether it helps or not ?
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