On 10/06/2011 09:35 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
It's sles11 sp2 that uses a 3.0.x kernel.On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 08:03 -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. Bill Kilcoyne might know the specifics.RHEL 6 will be sticking with what is nominally version 2.6.32, although RH continues to backport large changes from later versions. The first stable distribution with a 3.x kernel will presumably be Ubuntu 11.10 'oneiric'. Stable update 3.0.4 added a process personality flag that causes the kernel to report version numbers beginning '2.6.', and the 'setarch' command in util-linux has been updated to allow setting this flag. However. neither Debian nor Ubuntu has this new version of util-linux yet. Ben. -- mikem |