Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: Tohru Nishimura <nisimura@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/03/2000 18:15:54
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 06:10:21PM -0700, Tohru Nishimura wrote:
While this work-around is fine for now, I think a better solution for
the problem needs to be explored.
> Module Name: syssrc
> Committed By: nisimura
> Date: Tue Jul 4 01:10:20 UTC 2000
>
> Modified Files:
> syssrc/sys/dev/ic: ncr53c9x.c
>
> Log Message:
> Fix negative timeout symptoms caused by integer multiply overflow,
> which is revealed with larger HZ systems like NetBSD/pmax (256Hz)
> and NetBSD/alpha (1024Hz) as reported by PR#8645. Polled tape
> drive access is done with maximum 6 hour timeout which ended up
> with negative time and then confused SCSI bus severely.
>
>
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -r1.51 -r1.52 syssrc/sys/dev/ic/ncr53c9x.c
>
> Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
> copyright notices on the relevant files.
>
>
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>