[PATCH 1/1] scsi: scsi inquiry timeout config option

James Bottomley James.Bottomley at SteelEye.com
Tue Oct 4 07:01:45 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:26 -0500, brking at us.ibm.com wrote:
> Add a .config option to default the scsi scan inquiry timeout.
> Due to a broken device (SCSI/ATA converter card) that is very
> common on IBM iSeries/pSeries machines, these architectures
> need a longer default inquiry timeout.

The inquiry timeout has already been changed a while ago to be a module
parameter (or kernel parameter) for this very case.  Why does it now
need to be a config option as well?

James





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