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

[Ryan Stone]

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