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[PATCH] cdrom: set default timeout to 7 seconds
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It's a known fact that Windows times out commands after 7 seconds, so
drives generally try and respond if they can before that happens.  We
default to 5 seconds, which sometimes is a bit too short.

Jeremy Higdon reported here:

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/1/145

that his drive takes longer than 5 seconds for a "read track
information" command, later confirming that it is about 6.7 seconds.

So just do the sane thing and change the default command timeout to 7
seconds to avoid other surprises.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jens Axboe authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 4, 2007
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
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Expand Up @@ -337,6 +337,12 @@ static const char *mrw_address_space[] = { "DMA", "GAA" };
/* used in the audio ioctls */
#define CHECKAUDIO if ((ret=check_for_audio_disc(cdi, cdo))) return ret

/*
* Another popular OS uses 7 seconds as the hard timeout for default
* commands, so it is a good choice for us as well.
*/
#define CDROM_DEF_TIMEOUT (7 * HZ)

/* Not-exported routines. */
static int open_for_data(struct cdrom_device_info * cdi);
static int check_for_audio_disc(struct cdrom_device_info * cdi,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1528,7 +1534,7 @@ void init_cdrom_command(struct packet_command *cgc, void *buf, int len,
cgc->buffer = (char *) buf;
cgc->buflen = len;
cgc->data_direction = type;
cgc->timeout = 5*HZ;
cgc->timeout = CDROM_DEF_TIMEOUT;
}

/* DVD handling */
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