Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 11:10:43 EST


O> >> BTW, why the timeout is so damn long? 2*WAIT_CMD is 20 secs, and if DMA is
> >>not complete or interrupt pending, it may wait 10 more secs...
>
> > I really don't remember... :)
>
> > Maybe Mark or Alan could help with figuring this out.
>
> They also have probably forgotten. :-)

Because that value seemed to work ok. Mark set the timeouts way back in
history and I never touched most of them.

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