From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757841AbcBDOT5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:19:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33916 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757135AbcBDOT4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:19:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [mpt3sas driver 04/10] mpt3sas: Never block the Enclosure device To: Suganath prabu Subaramani , jejb@kernel.org, hch@infradead.org References: <1453963027-19770-1-git-send-email-suganath-prabu.subramani@avagotech.com> <1453963027-19770-5-git-send-email-suganath-prabu.subramani@avagotech.com> Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Sathya.Prakash@avagotech.com, kashyap.desai@avagotech.com, krishnaraddi.mankani@avagotech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chaitra.basappa@avagotech.com, sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com From: Tomas Henzl Message-ID: <56B35E07.4080909@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 15:19:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1453963027-19770-5-git-send-email-suganath-prabu.subramani@avagotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 28.1.2016 07:37, Suganath prabu Subaramani wrote: > From: Suganath prabu Subramani > > Never block the SEP device (i.e. Never invoke the > scsi_internal_device_block() API for SEP device) even for the delay not > responding events. Blocking the SEP device will create a deadlock while > adding any device to the OS. > > Signed-off-by: Suganath prabu Subramani > Signed-off-by: Chaitra P B Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl Tomas