On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Brian King wrote: > 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. My reading on mailing lists is that distros prefer module or kernel parameters more than they do kernel config options (in general) because they are more dynamic -- it allows them to build one kernel instead of many kernels with various config options. -- ~Randy - : 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
