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Message-ID: <466EEFD6.9030001@ru.mvista.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:11:18 +0400
From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@...ebsd.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>On Feb 20, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>>On Wednesday 21 February 2007 02:19, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
>>>>It can be changed via /proc/ide/hd?/settings.
>>>Why do we need to change IDE DMA timeout dynamically?
>>I've used it to test error recovery (for example).
> Seems quite useable for developers but I would prefer not to
> expose it in production kernels for end users.
It seems that I have counter example of a customer asking if this timeout
can be done configurable. :-)
BTW, why the timeout is so damn long? 2*WAIT_CMD is 20 secs, and if DMA is
not complete or interrupt pending, it may wait 10 more secs...
> Thanks,
> Bart
MBR, Sergei
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