From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> Its reported that mptsas can at times take over 30 seconds to recognize SCSI storage devices [0], this is done on the driver's probe path. Use the the deferred probe workqueue to allow long init sequences to complete. [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1276705 Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pierre Fersing <pierre-fersing@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Abhijit Mahajan <abhijit.mahajan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hariprasad S <hariprasad@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Santosh Rastapur <santosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c index 711fcb5..3859ac3 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c @@ -5382,6 +5382,9 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, mptsas_pci_table); static struct pci_driver mptsas_driver = { + .driver = { + .delay_probe = true, + }, .name = "mptsas", .id_table = mptsas_pci_table, .probe = mptsas_probe, -- 2.0.1 -- 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