Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:16:12 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable |
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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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