Subject: Re: Need to force SCSI_POLL when cold
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/24/1997 15:16:07
On Mon, 24 Mar 97 16:55:15 EST
gwr@mc.com (Gordon W. Ross) wrote:
> While tsleep() does not really do as the comment says it will,
> I'm not sure we want it to. Enabling interrupts while cold is
> not necessarily a good idea (safer to wait until autoconfig is
> finished). My hope is that with the code movement I suggested,
> we could change that bit of code in tsleep() to this:
>
> if (cold)
> panic("tsleep cold");
Yah, I'm with Goron on this one... IMO, the whole motion of calling
tsleep() while cold is, at best, counter-intuitive.
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