On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:11:18PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > >Scott Long wrote: > > > >> > >>For just about everyone, a value of 2 seconds or less is just fine. > >>For those with tape drives, changers, and (less likely) cdroms, a > >>long delay after reset is still quite necessary. There are two knobs > >>to adjust this, and I'd like GENERIC to remain compatible. It's 15 > >>seconds, not 2 minutes. You get a longer delay that that just trying > >>to set up the inital page tables on a large memory machine! > > > > > > > >for some reason the actual wait time always seems t be twice the > >nominated one for me.. > >i.e. 15 seconds really seems ot take 30 seconds etc. > > I'm willing to crank it down to 5 sec in HEAD. However, before I go > changing a whole bunch of identical lines in nearly identical GENERIC > files, I'd like to see GENERIC get split into several sub-modules that > live in /sys/conf and can be included instead of constantly duplicated. > i.e. > > /sys/conf: > /SCSI > /BLOCK > /NIC > /USB > /FIREWIRE > > etc. Some form of this seems reasionable. I pity the person who has to fight that battle over which bucket goes where though. :-) > Again, only for HEAD, not for RELENG_5. Thoughts? That's fine with me. I'd even go so far as to say that bumping the number for anything that wasn't a completly propriotary device would be fine with me. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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