From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:33:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1wp5r5o4e.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1503579163-104386-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> (Hannes Reinecke's message of "Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:52:43 +0200")
Hannes,
> VMWare ESXi emulates an mptsas HBA, but exposes all drives as
> direct-attached SAS drives. This it not how the driver originally
> envisioned things; SAS drives were supposed to be connected via an
> expander, and only SATA drives would be direct attached. As such any
> hotplug event for direct-attach SAS drives was silently ignored, and
> the guest failed to detect new drives from within a VMWare ESXi
> environment.
Applied to 4.14/scsi-queue. Thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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2017-08-24 12:52 [PATCH] mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-25 21:33 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
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