timeout()/untimeout() API:
- Clients supply callout handle storage, thus eliminating problems of
resource allocation.
- Insertion and removal of callouts is constant time, important as
this facility is used quite a lot in the kernel.
The old timeout()/untimeout() API has been removed from the kernel.
a historical leftover, and very few drivers actually look at it. But the
PCI `ncr' driver does, and if this field is not initialized to its default
value, that driver will fall over flat on its face when it attempts to get
sense data from a target.
- If UDMA 2 is failing try UDMA 1 first, it helps in some cases
- downgrade if we get an error in the first 4000 xfers, or if we get
4 errors in 4000 xfers if the first 4000 went without troubles.
While I'm there commit a local change I have since some time to get my CD
probed: issue a "blanck" IDENTIFY before the one used to detect slave ghosts,
with my drive the first IDENTIFY following a controller reset fails with an
aborted command ...
This is an attempt to allow people to change the default configuration
to try harder at 'mounting' a tape. This allows you to specify, in
seconds, the amount of time a non-control unit open will retry
(once per second) the scsipi_test_unit_ready when it tries to mount
the tape. It also turns off the over-verbose error reporting at
this time unless SCSIDEBUG is set.
The reason this is not enabled as a default is that it's a large change
of behaviour. I find it useful to 'try harder' at mounting a tape in
the tape driver, particularly when loaded via a media changer device
rather than specifying the delays in the backup program.
succeeds, note that we now are valid.
- Don't attempt to try and run initialize element status from interrupt level-
we don't really support that yet. Also, key more correctly off of ASC/ASCQ
instead of just the sense key.
- Make the practice of doing an INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS automatically when
we get params (from chopen time even) a policy decision that is not the
default for now- this can be a dangerous practice as well as time consuming.
It's dangerous in that you can have a hung open when all you really want
to do is do a read of parameters- and parameters, including slot status,
are perfectly fine to read even before an INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS is
done- all the elements whos status your read are going to be marked with
an exception- so leave it up to the application to decide how important
this is.
LiViD DVD player. (See forthcoming mail to current-users.)
XXX NOTE: We should do something to probe capabilities, rather than allowing
these ioctls on any device.
augustss