[PATCH 3/3] mptsas: ask for deferred probe

Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-07-28T14:34:27Z

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>

Its reported that mptsas can at times take over 30 seconds
to recognize SCSI storage devices [0], this is done on the
driver's probe path. Use the the deferred probe workqueue
to allow long init sequences to complete.

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1276705

Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Pierre Fersing <pierre-fersing@pierref.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@avagotech.com>
Cc: Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@avagotech.com>
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com>
Cc: Abhijit Mahajan <abhijit.mahajan@avagotech.com>
Cc: Hariprasad S <hariprasad@chelsio.com>
Cc: Santosh Rastapur <santosh@chelsio.com>
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@avagotech.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
---
drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c
index 711fcb5..3859ac3 100644
--- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c
@@ -5382,6 +5382,9 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, mptsas_pci_table);

static struct pci_driver mptsas_driver = {
+ .driver = {
+ .delay_probe = true,
+ },
.name = "mptsas",
.id_table = mptsas_pci_table,
.probe = mptsas_probe,
--
2.0.1