Re: [PATCH] megaraid_sas: boot hangs while LD is offline

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 08/16/2017 03:05 PM, Sumit Saxena wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:hare@suse.de]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 5:29 PM
>> To: Martin K. Petersen
>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; James Bottomley; Sumit Saxena; Kashyap Desai;
>> megaraidlinux.pdl@broadcom.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Hannes
>> Reinecke; Hannes Reinecke
>> Subject: [PATCH] megaraid_sas: boot hangs while LD is offline
>>
>> Offline Logical drives (LDs) should not allowed to be visible to the OS,
> as the
>> OS will hang trying to send commands to it.
>> This patch skips offline LDs like it already does for non-system physical
> drives
>> (PDs).
> 
> Hi Hannes,
> 
> You have submitted this patch in past as it was part of SLES kernel but
> missing in upstream and it was concluded to drop this patch then.
> This issue was fixed in firmware 4 years back and many firmware versions
> should be available with the fix so this fix is not required in
> driver(upstream
> as well SLES kernel). Do you see any functional issue without this patch ?
> If not, I would request  to back out this patch from SLES kernel also.
> 
Okay, if you say so.
Will be removing it.

Martin, please drop this patch.

Cheers,

Hannes
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