libata: end the r-word

Prompted by the social effort in the US to discourage usage of the
adjective "retarded".

In this case we needlessly anthropomorphize hard drives.  The
implication is that due to design deficiencies in the device reset
recovery time is negatively impacted.  We can simply clearly state that
fact.  "Exceptional devices cause outliers in reset recovery time." This
steers clear of any unintended comparison of such devices to humans with
cognitive disabilities.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index 6d8757008318..c1d0170a6585 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -95,12 +95,13 @@ enum {
  * represents timeout for that try.  The first try can be soft or
  * hardreset.  All others are hardreset if available.  In most cases
  * the first reset w/ 10sec timeout should succeed.  Following entries
- * are mostly for error handling, hotplug and retarded devices.
+ * are mostly for error handling, hotplug and those outlier devices that
+ * take an exceptionally long time to recover from reset.
  */
 static const unsigned long ata_eh_reset_timeouts[] = {
 	10000,	/* most drives spin up by 10sec */
 	10000,	/* > 99% working drives spin up before 20sec */
-	35000,	/* give > 30 secs of idleness for retarded devices */
+	35000,	/* give > 30 secs of idleness for outlier devices */
 	 5000,	/* and sweet one last chance */
 	ULONG_MAX, /* > 1 min has elapsed, give up */
 };