Allow user to change the length of time that the driver
will wait for the controller to become ready.
Reviewed-by: Scott Benesh <scott.benesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Scott Teel <scott.teel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mike McGowen <mike.mcgowen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Barnett <kevin.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <don.brace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
man4/smartpqi.4 | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man4/smartpqi.4 b/man4/smartpqi.4
index 32f9240e37f2..e12d82296108 100644
--- a/man4/smartpqi.4
+++ b/man4/smartpqi.4
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ smartpqi \- Microchip Smart Storage SCSI driver
.RB [ expose_ld_first= { 0 | 1 }]
.RB [ hide_vsep= { 0 | 1 }]
.RB [ disable_managed_interrupts= { 0 | 1 }]
+.RB [ ctrl_ready_timeout= { 0 | [30, 1800] }]
.YS
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B smartpqi
@@ -107,6 +108,12 @@ Disables driver utilization of Linux kernel managed interrupts for controllers.
The managed interrupts feature automatically distributes interrupts
to all available CPUs and assigns SMP affinity.
The default value is 0 (managed interrupts enabled).
+.TP
+.BR ctrl_ready_timeout= { 0 | [30, 1800] }
+This option specifies the timeout in seconds for the driver to wait
+for the controller to be ready.
+The valid range is 0 or [30, 1800]. The default value is 0,
+which causes the driver to use a timeout of 180 seconds.
.SH FILES
.SS Device nodes
Logical drives are accessed via the SCSI disk driver
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