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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:39:54 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        Paul Saab <ps@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c src/sys/dev/ida ida_disk.c src/sys/dev/twe twe_freebsd.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103282231430.25660-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103271501.f2RF1cs69363@aslan.scsiguy.com>

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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> >ps          2001/03/26 22:24:08 PST
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    sys/cam/scsi         scsi_da.c 
> >    sys/dev/ata          ata-disk.c 
> >    sys/dev/ida          ida_disk.c 
> >    sys/dev/twe          twe_freebsd.c 
> >  Log:
> >  Change the dump routines to only abort if control-c is pressed.
> >  If any other key is pressed, print a message stating that control-c
> >  is how to abort.

Ugh.  I like holding down the space bar to abort all stages of the
reboot as fast as possible.

> Why not replace the call to cncheckc with a more generic "dump status"
> callback that prints stats, checks for abort, etc.  The number of block
> devices we support that either currently support crash dumps or should
> is growing, and duplicating all of the watch dog code, etc in each one
> seems silly.

Most of the dump routines should be centralized.  The driver-specific
parts should be just an initialization routine and a strategy routine.

Bruce


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