Subject: Re: dynamic configuration (was Re: PR#4094)
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/28/2000 09:45:54
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:18:28AM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

 > Since it seems that the goal is to wait two seconds between SCSI bus
 > attachment and SCSI bus probe, it seems that the best thing to do
 > would be to grab the time when the bus is attached and see if two
 > seconds have passed before probing the bus. I suppose that the lack of
 > timer interrupts during most of autoconfig makes this hairy, though.

Not necessarily.  Really, you want to defer even the reset of the SCSI
bus to the first time devices are probed on it.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>