Re: [PATCH] mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi

Martin K. Petersen
2017-08-25T21:33:34Z

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!

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering