On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> I'm somewhat dissatisfied with the need for every SCSI driver to
> force SCSI_POLL when cold, as in the change shown here:

> + 	/*
> + 	 * XXX: Hack: During autoconfig, force polling mode.
> + 	 * Needed as long as sdsize() can be called while cold,
> + 	 * otherwise timeouts will never call back (grumble).
> + 	 */
> + 	if (cold)
> + 		flags |= SCSI_POLL;
> + 

I think the real heart of the problem is the code in
kern_synch.c:tsleep().  It is not behaving as it says it will when
``cold'' is true.

-J