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megaraid sas driver

DISCUSSION Rakesh 1 participant 1 message Apr 8, 2008 SCSI

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I am curious to ask, why were these lines omitted from the megaraid SAS driver with kernel version 2.6.15 onwards.

In my opinion these were blocking physical disks which were part of a RAID set on the controller from being visible to OS. Is this correct?

Thanks,
Rakesh

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megaraid_sas.c

                /*

989 * Don't export physical disk
devices to mid-layer.
990 */
991 if (!MEGASAS_IS_LOGICAL(cmd->scmd)
&&
992 (hdr->cmd_status ==
MFI_STAT_OK) &&
993 (cmd->scmd->cmnd[0] ==
INQUIRY)) {
994
995 if (((*(u8 *)
cmd->scmd->request_buffer) & 0x1F) ==
996 TYPE_DISK) {
997 cmd->scmd->result
= DID_BAD_TARGET << 16;
998 exception = 1;
999 }
1000 }

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