Bug#644362: linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae: hpacucli hangs when creating disks on cciss
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:03:26AM -0500, scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com wrote:
> 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.
Er, no rhel6.1 doesn't use a 3.x kernel. I think I must have
been thinking of rhel 6.2, which isn't out yet.
>
> Bill Kilcoyne might know the specifics.
>
> -- steve
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