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>On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 01:28:44PM -0400, James Chacon wrote:
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>> Attached are patches that do #2. Of the 2 sides to scsipi only the scsi end
>> needed this as atapi doesn't have this problem. To account for "jitter" and
>> to make sure all devices always attach in the same order a queue is used to
>> force all probes to occur in bus attach order.
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>Looks good to me.
>Maybe there's a chance to make the 2s SCSI delay before probe global instead
>of per-channel ? It's annoying when you have a lot of channels.

Doesn't that work by sending a reset to the HBA and then waiting 2s? Anything
sent to the HBA should be done in the appropriate bus's thread to avoid
possible issues.

>The problem is that we have to keep it for hot-plug SCSI adapters.
>I think the mechanism you implemented can help, with a global flag
>set in scsibusattach() and cleared at the first SCSI_DELAY.

Thats also why I think leaving it as is inside the probe is the best thing.

James