Brian King <brk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> This patch fixes two issues. It changes how the known zeroed
> state is tracked so that it works reliably on SIS64 adapters.
> We previously had been relying on the bus/target/lun value
> to be consistent when a JBOD disk was reformatted to a RAID
> capable disk. This is true for SIS32 adapters, since this
> tuple is tied to a physical location. For SIS64, however,
> this tuple is generated by the ipr driver, so is often
> not the same value when a JBOD is converted to RAID. Instead,
> we change to always use the device_id attribute, which is
> generated by the adapter based on the LUN WWN of the disk.
> This patch also eliminates a hang that can occur when formatting
> disks if a second iprconfig instance is started concurently.

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <kris...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi


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