scsi: mpt3sas: Allow ioctls to blocked access status NVMe
If driver sees the NVMe drive with "DEVICE_BLOCKED" AccessStatus in its PCIe Device Page0, then driver removes the drive from its internal list and does not allow any IOCTL commands to be sent to the drive and will return the IOCTLs with "-ENODEV" status. The driver will now allow NVMe Encapsulated IOCTL issued to the NVMe device with an access status of DEVICE_BLOCKED. This change allows the user to flash new drive firmware online and revive the drive. Add NVMe device only the driver's internal list even though the device is in the blocked state so that the device will be visible to Apps. This way Apps can send NVMe Encapsulated IOCTLs to this drive and bring the drive online. This NVMe drive with DEVICE_BLOCKED access status won't added to the SML, it will be added only in the driver's internal list. [mkp: clarified desc] Signed-off-by: Suganath Prabu <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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