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Date:      Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:40:27 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r199050 - in head/sys: conf dev/ata
Message-ID:  <4AF6D85B.4040905@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091108143633.GR2331@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <200911081433.nA8EXJnp088767@svn.freebsd.org> <20091108143633.GR2331@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:33:19PM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Author: mav
>> Date: Sun Nov  8 14:33:19 2009
>> New Revision: 199050
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199050
>>
>> Log:
>>   Introduce define and kernel option ATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT to control ATA(4)
>>   command timeout.
> 
> Why is this a compile-time option ? Having to recompile kernel for this
> is too much, IMHO. It should be loader tunable + sysctl, isn't it.

As I have told once, I think it is not a thing that should be often
tuned by end-user, especially in real-time. I just turned it into macro,
as some people complain about using numerous equal numeric constants.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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