[illumos-Developer] Changing sd_io_time to 8?

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:

> > What do you believe would have been better in case that the merge had not  been 
> > done?
> > 
> > Jörg
> > 
>
> Two separate drivers, with separate logic, each of which would have been
> somewhat simpler than putting all the contortions for both types of
> device in the same driver.
>
> sd is a mess, and its a mess largely because it tries to support every
> possible form of mass storage.  This is a big mistake IMO.  I'd rather
> have some code duplicated across different drivers, and have the drivers
> be simpler and easier to maintain.

Well, you need SCSI commands for CD-ROMs even when they are connected via ATA.

I am not sure that this would really help.

Jörg

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