Subject: re: have scsibus sleep only one time
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/09/2003 20:50:01
At 06:04 PM 3/9/2003, matthew green wrote:
>
>    Hi,
>    would anyone object to the attached change ?
>    It makes all the attached scsibusses sleep "in parallel" instead of
>    sequencially, which is a real win for machines with several SCSI busses.
>    On my DS20, which has 8 scsi busses, this saves 14 seconds on boot.
>
>
>i think this change is a wonderful idea.

There is one issue with this.  If you don't wire down your scsi devices
in your config file, they may get attached in random order.


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