On 08/16/2017 03:05 PM, Sumit Saxena wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:hare@xxxxxxx] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 5:29 PM >> To: Martin K. Petersen >> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; James Bottomley; Sumit Saxena; Kashyap Desai; >> megaraidlinux.pdl@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 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 -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
