Public bug reported:

[Impact]
The hotplugging disk cannot be detected with the simulated MPT SAS 
device on VMWare ESXi.

[Fix]
Author: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>
Date:   Thu Aug 24 14:52:43 2017 +0200

scsi: mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi
    
VMWare ESXi emulates an mptsas HBA, but exposes all drives as
direct-attached SAS drives.  This it not how the driver originally
envisioned things; SAS drives were supposed to be connected via an
expander, and only SATA drives would be direct attached. As such, any 
hotplug event for direct-attach SAS drives was silently ignored, and 
the guest failed to detect new drives from within a VMWare ESXi
environment.

[Test]
The patch has been verified based on the Ubuntu kernel v4.4.0-97.120.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Gavin Guo (mimi0213kimo)
         Status: New


** Tags: sts

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  Device hotplugging with MPT SAS cannot work for VMWare ESXi

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