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Bug#418757: marked as done (information about aacraid missing from /proc)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #418757,
regarding information about aacraid missing from /proc
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Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
Tags: patch

Looks like change of behavior of newer GCCs triggered a bug which causes
the /proc/scsi/aacraid directory tree (which I understand contains
information useful to array monitoring) not to appear.

Please see the following link for an explanation and a patch.

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-January/029281.html

I wonder if this could still make it into etch with the other fixes for
kernel that were mentioned.

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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:00:17AM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, closing the bug now.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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