Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware
On 08/22/2012 09:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:49:23PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>> Did you read the two bug reports at all? I assume not, otherwise you would not
>> be asking. I don't want to receive emails from mpt-status, telling me that my
>> raid is broken, if there is no raid at all. Also I do not want to waste ram to
>> run something I don't need and I did not install.
>
> So vmware emulates a raid controller but you don't want to use it.
No, I'm using this "raid" controller, but it just provides an emulation with
access to scsi disks and nothing you would expect from a raid comtroller.
Especially you can't ask it for the health of its raid set.
> But at the same time most people who do have such a raid controller would
> want software for it, so why should Debian not install the software that
> is appropriate to that controller?
That is not the question.
> Can't you tell vmware to not emulate that raid controller if you have
> no intention of using it?
Again, I'm using it. Its the default hard-disk controller.
> Now how many people have that controller and use it as just a scsi
> controller rather than a raid controller might be a good question.
> perhaps most owners of such hardware don't actually care for the raid
> monitoring software.
Well, if you have a real hardware controller, I would expect it to be monitored
properly. But I fail to understand why it is not possible not to install
mpt-status if vmware devices are present.
I think discover is able to handle subsystem-vendor/device ids, both are 0x0000
for vmware controllers. At least for the first one I checked. So excluding it
should be possible.
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