linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:46:17 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     kys@...rosoft.com, longli@...rosoft.com, wei.liu@...nel.org,
        decui@...rosoft.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts

On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:59:24 -0700, Michael Kelley wrote:

> Hyper-V provides the ability to connect Fibre Channel LUNs to the host
> system and present them in a guest VM as a SCSI device. I/O to the vFC
> device is handled by the storvsc driver. The storvsc driver includes
> a partial integration with the FC transport implemented in the generic
> portion of the Linux SCSI subsystem so that FC attributes can be
> displayed in /sys.  However, the partial integration means that some
> aspects of vFC don't work properly. Unfortunately, a full and correct
> integration isn't practical because of limitations in what Hyper-V
> provides to the guest.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.5/scsi-fixes, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: storvsc: Fix handling of virtual Fibre Channel timeouts
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/175544ad48cb

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering