From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <redacted>
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@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Joseph Salisbury <redacted>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <redacted>
Cc: Tim Gardner <redacted>
Cc: Pierre Fersing <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Poirier <redacted>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <redacted>
Cc: Praveen Krishnamoorthy <redacted>
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <redacted>
Cc: Abhijit Mahajan <redacted>
Cc: Hariprasad S <redacted>
Cc: Santosh Rastapur <redacted>
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@avagotech.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <redacted>
---
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