scsi: lpfc: Reset link or adapter instead of doing infinite nameserver PLOGI retry

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Currently, PLOGI failures are infinitely delayed/retried.  There have
been some fabric situations where the PLOGI's were to the nameserver
and it stopped responding. The retries would never clear up.  A better
resolution in this situation is to retry a couple of times, then drop
the link and reinit. This brings back connectivity to the nameserver.

Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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James Smart 2018-10-23 13:41:04 -07:00 • committed by Martin K. Petersen

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drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_crtn.h

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drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c

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