RE: [PATCH] megaraid_sas: Fallback to older scanning if not disks are found

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Duncan [mailto:lduncan@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 3:29 AM
> To: Hannes Reinecke; Sumit Saxena
> Cc: Kashyap Desai; megaraidlinux.pdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Martin K. Petersen;
> James Bottomley; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] megaraid_sas: Fallback to older scanning if not
disks
> are found
>
> On 01/15/2016 06:13 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > commit 21c9e160a51383d4cb0b882398534b0c95c0cc3b implemented a
> new
> > driver lookup using the MR_DCMD_LD_LIST_QUERY firmware command.
> > However, this command might not work properly on older firmware,
> > causing the command to return no drives instead of an error.
> > This causes a regression on older firmware as the driver will no
> > longer detect any drives.
> > This patch checks if MR_DCMD_LD_LIST_QUERY return no drives, and falls
> > back to the original method if so.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
> > b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
> > index f97ec34..79dff70 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
> > @@ -4107,6 +4107,10 @@ megasas_ld_list_query(struct
> megasas_instance *instance, u8 query_type)
> >  		ret = megasas_issue_polled(instance, cmd);
> >
> >  	tgtid_count = le32_to_cpu(ci->count);
> > +	if (tgtid_count == 0) {
> > +		/* No drives found, try the older LD list DCMD */
> > +		ret = 1;
> > +	}
> >
> >  	if ((ret == 0) && (tgtid_count <= (instance-
> >fw_supported_vd_count))) {
> >  		memset(instance->ld_ids, 0xff, MEGASAS_MAX_LD_IDS);
> >
>
> Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx>

NACK as fix is already provided in another patch.
Please review patch - http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=145044529215209&w=2
It has changes to handle this particular issue as well along with many
other areas of MFI DCMD timeout.
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