I increased the delay step by step until loading of mvsas
reliably detected the drive 200 times in sequence. A much better
approach would be to monitor the hardware for some flag which
indicates that port detection has finished, but I do not have any
hardware documentation.
BTW: patch is against
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git
Signed-off-by: Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@xxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c b/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c
index 1dd70d7..23e5a87 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c
@@ -2959,7 +2959,7 @@ static int __devinit mvs_hw_init(struct mvs_info *mvi)
/* enable auto port detection */
mw32(GBL_PORT_TYPE, MODE_AUTO_DET_EN);
- msleep(100);
+ msleep(1100);
/* init and reset phys */
for (i = 0; i < mvi->chip->n_phy; i++) {
u32 lo = be32_to_cpu(*(u32 *)&mvi->sas_addr[4]);
