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Date:   Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:40:52 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpi3mr: Fix duplicate device entries when scan through
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 09:35:39PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 1:53 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 01:46:56PM +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote:
> > > When the user scans the devices through 'scan' sysfs using below
> > > command then the user will observe duplicate device entries
> > > in lsscsi command output.
> > > echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
> > >
> > > Fix is to set the shost's max_channel to zero.
> > >
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v5.14.11+
> >
> > Please tag this based on a release of Linus's, or better yet, provide a
> > "Fixes:" commit so that the stable people know exactly where to backport
> > it to.
> Thanks, Shall I resend the patch with proper "Fixes:" commit ID.

Yes please.

> > As this is, we do not take patches only for stable kernels...
> This fix applies for the mainline kernel as well.

That's good, as that is the only way to get patches accepted :)