On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 02:14:37AM -0800, Sumit Saxena wrote:
> There are few MFI adapters which do not support MR_DCMD_PD_LIST_QUERY so
> if MFI adapters fail this DCMD, it should not be considered as FATAL and
> driver should not issue kill adapter and set per controller's instance
> variable- pd_list_not_supported so that same variable can be used inside
> functions- slave_alloc and slave_configure to allow firmware scan.
> 
> Killing adapter because of DCMD failure when this DCMD is not supported
> causes driver's probe getting failed. This issue got introduced because
> of below commit when MFI IO timeout handling was introduced-
> 
> 6d40afb megaraid_sas: MFI IO timeout handling
> 
> Killing adapter in case of this DCMD failure should be limited to Fusion
> adapters only. Per controller's instance variable allow_fw_scan is removed
> as pd_list_not_supported better reflect the purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.sax...@broadcom.com>

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumsh...@suse.de>

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