Bug#644362: linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae: hpacucli hangs when creating disks on cciss

[scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 01:55:37AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> leo weppelman wrote[1]:
> 
> > I tried to reproduce the problem with 3.1.0-rc7-686-pae from
> > experimental as you requested, but I failed. The problem is that
> > hpacucli does not find any controllers with this kernel :-( I used the
> > latest available hpacucli version (8.75-12.0). This version definitely
> > works with 2.6.39. I tried strace-ing hpacucli but that didn't give me
> > any clues. It was looking for /dev/cciss/c0d0/cciss, which is weird
> > and might indicate that the 3.1 environment makes the hpacucli device
> > search fail....
> 
> Weird.  Stephen et al: any ideas?

Yeah I suspect I know what's going on.  There was some code
in hpaaculi which was asking the question "Is this a 2.4 kernel?
Or is this a 2.6 kernel?" It didn't consider the possibility of
a 3.x kernel, and in the face of a 3.x kernel, it just kind of
gave up.

Pretty sure this bug is fixed in a released version of hpacucli
because rhel6.1 uses a 3.x kernel, and I know we support that.

Bill Kilcoyne might know the specifics.

-- steve