Bug#418757: Debian Etch: Patch: /proc/scsi/aacraid missing
In message <[🔎] 20080611053514.GB13860@colo.lackof.org>, dann frazier writes:
>On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:28:49PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
>> Amongst other things this prevents using the Dell afacli management tool
>> to monitor/manage the RAID arrays, since it checks for
>> /proc/scsi/aacraid and aborts if [/proc/scsi/aacraid] is not found.
>> [Trivial patch, from Dell engineers]
>
>Thanks Ewen. The first step in getting it into Debian would be to make
>sure it gets upstream.
Thanks for the prompt response.
I've checked the Linux 2.6.24 kernel source (eg, as in Testing now) and
it's not present there. I also emailed the two Dell engineers listed on
the original patch and they tell me that the subsystem maintainer
rejected their patch due to the move away from using procfs for such
information (to using sysfs instead). Apparently Dell got their core
management tool updated to use the new interface (by the third party
supplier), but it looks like the command line management tool I want to
use never got updated.
I understand your reluctance to carry a special patch in Debian, but
I do note that this appears to be a feature regression from Sarge ->
Etch as Marcin Owsiany noted 14 months ago (since the /proc interface
was present in Sarge and gone in Etch, and the tool seems to have worked
with Sarge but doesn't work with Etch, due to changes in the way the
compiler handled uninitialised data and the things that needed to be
set to make the proc file appear).
Perhaps it's now too late to do anything about this.
Ewen
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