Re: kern/43257: default SCSI-tape timeing parameters not selectable by kernel config

[Andrew Doran <ad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:35:02AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/43257; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: kern/43257: default SCSI-tape timeing parameters not
>       selectable by kernel config
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 06:30:53 +0000
> 
>  On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:30:04PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
>   >  Thanks for the patch.  On the approach: these should be tuneable via 
> sysctl
>   >  and not kernel options.
>  
>  Shouldn't they be device properties?

If the user can set them without recompiling the kernel, sure that
would work too.