Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Manuel Bouyer 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'll be honest, I don't know that part of the code well. I assume that the
>resetting of all busses occured above where you moved the code to?

>i.e. we reset all busses, sleep once, then probe all busses? One question,
>won't that make the per-bus check, (chan->chan_flags &
>SCSIPI_CHAN_NOSETTLE) == 0, useless?

Actually, what business do we have resetting the SCSI busses?

1) this wreaks havoc with scsibusses with multiple initiators on the bus
(vulgo: HA clusters).  We'll have to deal with that anyway at one point.

2) most, if not all, of the host adapters/firmware already do a reset on
boot, sometimes controlled by per-adapter configuration settings.  why bother
a second time.

(The same goes for resetting ATA disks.  The only effects I seem to be able
to witness is that a) the bios sleep and suspend setting get lost. b) the
bios-programmed geometry gets lost.  Both aren't exactly bonus points in my
book.)

--chris