On 10/15/2013 05:52 PM, Stewart, Sean wrote: > During testing, it was discovered that when a device tries to attach to the alua handler while in TPG > state of transitioning, the alua_rtpg function will wait for it to exit the state before allowing it > to continue. As a result, if the 60 second timeout expires, the alua handler will not attach to the > device. > > To fix this, I have introduced an input argument to alua_rtpg called wait_for_transition. The idea is > that it will wait for the transition to complete before an activation (because the current TPG state has > some bearing in that case), but during a discovery if it is transitioning, it will not wait, and will > store the state as standby for the time being. > > I believe the precedent exists for this from commit c0d289b3e59577532c45ee9110ef81bd7b341272 > Since if the device reports a state of transitioning, it can transition to other more valid states, and > it has been established TPGS is supported on the device, if it is attaching. > > Signed-off-by: Sean Stewart <Sean.Stewart@xxxxxxxxxx> Hmm. Looks like you're correct. Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
