APPLIED: [SRU][X/Z/A][PATCH] Fix for LP:#1730852

[Stefan Bader]

On 08.11.2017 05:10, Gavin Guo wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1730852
> 
> [Impact]
> The hoplugging disk cannot be detected with the simulated MPT SAS
> device on VMWare ESXi.
> 
> [Fix]
> Author: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
> Date:   Thu Aug 24 14:52:43 2017 +0200
> 
> scsi: mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi
>     
> 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.
> 
> [Test]
> The patch has been verified based on the Ubuntu kernel v4.4.0-97.120.
> 
> Hannes Reinecke (1):
>   scsi: mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi
> 
>  drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
Applied to Artful/Zesty/Xenial master-next. Thanks.

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