Folks,
I just did a bit of searching on the website, and garnered enough
information from
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=546460+0+/usr/local/www/d
b/text/1998/freebsd-questions/19981115.freebsd-questions> to be able
to add a new "quirk" in /usr/src/sys/cam/cam_xpt.c for a piece of
hardware I'm having some difficulty with.
Assuming this works, I will file a proper PR, etc....
However, shouldn't there be an easier way to do this? For
example, shouldn't there be a sysctl for changing these sorts of
things, perhaps something like:
kern.cam.cd.changer.min_busy_seconds: 5
kern.cam.cd.changer.max_busy_seconds: 15
kern.cam.quirks.direct.fixed.quantum.XP39100*.*.mintags: 24
kern.cam.quirks.direct.fixed.quantum.XP39100*.*.maxtags: 32
kern.cam.quirks.direct.fixed.quantum.XP34550*.*.mintags: 24
kern.cam.quirks.direct.fixed.quantum.XP34550*.*.maxtags: 32
kern.cam.quirks.direct.fixed.quantum.XP32275*.*.mintags: 24
kern.cam.quirks.direct.fixed.quantum.XP32275*.*.maxtags: 32
This would make it very easy to add new quirks as they come along
(just update your sysctl.conf), and without having to always file a
PR so that /usr/src/sys/cam/cam_xpt.c gets modified so that you can
have your quirk and track -CURRENT too (or -STABLE, for that matter).
--
These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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