Bug#547183: please upgrade the megaraid_sas module

[Manolis Stamatogiannakis <mstamat@csd.uoc.gr>]

I'd like to back Kevin's request.

I downloaded the latest backported kernel for amd64 and it includes driver version 00.00.04.01 of the driver:

modinfo ./lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.ko
filename:       ./lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.ko
description:    LSI MegaRAID SAS Driver
author:         megaraidlinux@lsi.com
version:        00.00.04.01
...

This means that the stable kernel driver is at least a couple of releases behind the testing kernel (which usually isn't the bleeding edge either). This seems a bit unreasonable (IMHO), especially when the hardware vendor (Dell) implicitly recommends the use of a later version.



As a temporary solution, I switched to the backports kernel:

echo "deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get install -t lenny-backports linux-image-2.6-amd64

Since we're talking about Dell, do notice that switching to backports kernel breaks the is may breaks the Broadcom NetXtreme II driver. The firmware-bnx2 package from sid should provide the updated firmware to make the driver work. I installed it manually (dpkg -i firmware-bnx2_0.18_all.deb).

Cheers