On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:51:27PM +0900, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote: > IIRC we had set it to 180 seconds for some historical reasons, but > I'm afraid nobody can recall the reason why it's set so in 2013... > Anyway I was thinking it too long and reduced to a few seconds locally > when debugging, so there shouldn't be a problem with this change. I think one motivation was to have boards reboot automatically avoiding the need to walk over to the board just powercycle or reset it - let alone reseting by emailing/phoning an admin! But that's a development-specific motivation and it shouldn't result in a hardcoded reboot timeout for everybody. Ralf