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
