set kern.cam.scsi_delay to 2000ms on all platforms

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 21 06:21:50 UTC 2010


a few years ago kern.cam.scsi_delay was set from 150000 to 5000. nowadays a
value of 2000 should be sufficient even on old/slow hardware.

to have cleaner code it's better to set default value to 2000 instead of doing
so in every config file on every platform.

cheers.
alex

On Wed Oct 20 10, Scott Long wrote:
> You've described the "what" but not the "why".  Why do you want to remove this option?  Why do you want to change its value?
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> 
> > hi there,
> > 
> > i've posted this patch on freebsd-hackers@, but jhb@ recommended i should also
> > send it to freebsd-scsi at . basically what this patch does is to populate
> > kern.cam.scsi_delay=2000 as the default value throughout the entire source
> > tree. in addition to that it gets rid of some legacy Makefile entries, where
> > kern.cam.scsi_delay was set to 150000.
> > 
> > cheers.
> > alex
> > 
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