On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:55, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As the $SUBJ says, why does udev set timeout for all SCSI devices? > It's the following two rules. > > 50-udev-default.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", KERNEL=="[0-9]*:[0-9]*", > ACTION=="add", ATTR{type}=="0|7|14", ATTR{timeout}="60" > 50-udev-default.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", KERNEL=="[0-9]*:[0-9]*", > ACTION=="add", ATTR{type}=="1", ATTR{timeout}="900" > > The appropriate default timeout differs depending on the transport and > the type of the attached device, so the above two rules harm more than > help. The affect of the above two rules weren't visible for some > reason but with recent block layer timeout update, they actually work > and cause problems. It's in there for years, I can not even dig out, where it is coming from. I just removed it from the default rules. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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