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authorStephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>2011-11-16 09:21:49 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2011-11-16 09:21:49 +0100
commit0007a4c90a11a5371c8b3f80b220fa402a399189 (patch)
tree3fb4a0158f87f539b2415fad35e958d1d1259910 /drivers/block
parent7035b5df3c071ccaf2f1694b96bd8958b0eb37ca (diff)
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cciss: auto engage SCSI mid layer at driver load time
A long time ago, probably in 2002, one of the distros, or maybe more than one, loaded block drivers prior to loading the SCSI mid layer. This meant that the cciss driver, being a block driver, could not engage the SCSI mid layer at init time without panicking, and relied on being poked by a userland program after the system was up (and the SCSI mid layer was therefore present) to engage the SCSI mid layer. This is no longer the case, and cciss can safely rely on the SCSI mid layer being present at init time and engage the SCSI mid layer straight away. This means that users will see their tape drives and medium changers at driver load time without need for a script in /etc/rc.d that does this: for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss* do echo "engage scsi" > $x done However, if no tape drives or medium changers are detected, the SCSI mid layer will not be engaged. If a tape drive or medium change is later hot-added to the system it will then be necessary to use the above script or similar for the device(s) to be acceesible. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/cciss.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index 5b69019..8004ac3 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -5163,6 +5163,7 @@ reinit_after_soft_reset:
h->cciss_max_sectors = 8192;
rebuild_lun_table(h, 1, 0);
+ cciss_engage_scsi(h);
h->busy_initializing = 0;
return 1;
diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
index 951a4e3..e820b68 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
@@ -1720,5 +1720,6 @@ static int cciss_eh_abort_handler(struct scsi_cmnd *scsicmd)
/* If no tape support, then these become defined out of existence */
#define cciss_scsi_setup(cntl_num)
+#define cciss_engage_scsi(h)
#endif /* CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE */
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