kern/172864: [mfi] mfip does not notice new drives

[Doug Ambrisko]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:18:01PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Mark Johnston <markjdb at gmail.com> wrote:
| > The following reply was made to PR kern/172864; it has been noted by GNATS.
| >
| > From: Mark Johnston <markjdb at gmail.com>
| > To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, kpneal at pobox.com
| > Cc:
| > Subject: Re: kern/172864: [mfi] mfip does not notice new drives
| > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:48:22 -0400
| >
| >  This is because mfi(4) currently doesn't notify CAM when it receives a
| >  drive insertion/removal event from the hardware. I fixed this in the
| >  tree at work; I'll post it to freebsd-scsi when I have access to it
| >  again, probably in a couple of months.
| >
| >  FWIW, running "camcontrol rescan all" should have also caused the
| >  passthrough devices to appear, so that's another workaround.
| 
| I believe that this is the patch that Mark refers to:
| http://people.freebsd.org/~rstone/patches/mfi_hotplug.diff

This has been checked in now.

Thanks,

Doug A.