From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:33:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1503579163-104386-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:50684 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932374AbdHYVde (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:33:34 -0400 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") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke 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