linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: continue to boot even with Boot LUN is disabled

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:46:16 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Huanlin Ke <chgokhl@...il.com>
Cc:     vinholikatti@...il.com, jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kehuanlin@...econe.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: continue to boot even with Boot LUN is disabled


Huanlin,

> Several configurable fields of the Device Descriptor and the Unit
> Descriptors determine the Boot LUN status. The bBootEnable field and
> the bBootLunEn attribute is set to zero by default, so the Boot LUN is
> disabled by default.
>
> At which point the scsi device add for Boot LUN will fail, but we can
> continue to use the ufs device in fact. This failure shouldn't abort the
> device boot.

Applied to 4.15/scsi-queue. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering