From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Cc: Joseph Salisbury <[email protected]> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <[email protected]> Cc: Tim Gardner <[email protected]> Cc: Pierre Fersing <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Benjamin Poirier <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <[email protected]> Cc: Praveen Krishnamoorthy <[email protected]> Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <[email protected]> Cc: Abhijit Mahajan <[email protected]> Cc: Hariprasad S <[email protected]> Cc: Santosh Rastapur <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> --- 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
