James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:26 -0500, brking@xxxxxxxxxx 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? So that when a distro goes off and builds a PPC64 install kernel, it can boot on one of these broken DVD-ROMs without requiring each distro to add special module options inside their initrd. -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
