Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932317AbXBUCgQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:36:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932359AbXBUCgP (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:36:15 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:13334 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932315AbXBUCgO (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:36:14 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=B0FCbVbJKs75LJ6Zegh89BgLRNVE3LWa4Hg/0uiKzmXkJNzpYTfX/aRoX6Ea6fY8/m6HL3supQcmPxUqoBrUCn6x31fFR0+nMGCE2SivAhRNo1m6hL0JnrTP34mfaDxpegf7PiM2vbtn/ONlgbXSv8kM4wieoE22vmxArRsP/sw= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Suleiman Souhlal Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:42:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070221011922.GA1777@freefall.freebsd.org> <200702210244.53514.bzolnier@gmail.com> <3063A690-4E3D-4A6E-A7DC-3E624121FBB8@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3063A690-4E3D-4A6E-A7DC-3E624121FBB8@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702210342.20775.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 33 Hi, On Wednesday 21 February 2007 03:13, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 02:19, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > >> It can be changed via /proc/ide/hd?/settings. > > > > Why do we need to change IDE DMA timeout dynamically? > > I've used it to test error recovery (for example). Seems quite useable for developers but I would prefer not to expose it in production kernels for end users. > > BTW /proc/ide/hd?/settings is obsoleted > > What's the preferred way of changing such settings, these days? sysfs ide.c:ide_dev_attrs[] for generic attributes valid for all devices Thanks, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/