Re: [PATCH 6/7] scsi: hisi_sas: fix probe ordering problem

From: Johannes Thumshirn
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 03:55:50 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:32:52AM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> From: Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is a potential probe issue in how we trigger the hw initialisation.
> Although we use 1s timer to delay hw initialisation, there is still a
> potential that sas_register_ha() is not be finished before we start
> the PHY init from hw->hw_init().
> To avoid this issue, initialise the hw after sas_register_ha() in the
> same probe context.
> Note: it is not necessary to use 1s timer now (modified v2 hw only).
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks OK,
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>

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