> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:04:43 +0200
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>

> Such a long timeout is annoying with hot-plug hardware: you may unplug the
> disk while a command is active, and it takes 1mn to timeout. The RAID device 
> using this is hung for 1mn as well :(
> 
> If noone object I'll change this to 10000 (10s) in a few days.

Why 10s is acceptable but 60s isn't acceptable?  To provide the way to
cancel active i/o before removing the device is the right thing, isn't
it?

At least, the PR explicity says that 10s isn't enough for some optical
device, I think we can't simply backout it.

enami