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Bug#795060: Latest Wheezy backport kernel prefers Infiniband mlx4_en over mlx4_ib, breaks existing installs



On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 13:45 +0900, Christian Balzer wrote:
[...]
> So I decided to downgrade the Mellanox firmware of mbx09.
> 
> After building a current version of mstflint (the one in Wheezy is ancient
> and not particular justified) I got the oldest firmware (2.32.5100) on the
> Supermicro FTP site for that mainboard and flashed it.
> 
> Lo and behold, no more vanishing acts of the ib0: interface, no more need
> to blacklist/fake install the mlx4_en module.
> 
> While moderately happy with the outcome, I still consider this a kernel
> bug. 
> All the described behavior is not only very unexpected and unwelcome, the
> fact that a remote card reboot can make your network stack vanish (and
> not re-appear unless done manually) is just wrong.
[...]

This sounds rather more like a firmware bug than a kernel bug.  Please
ask Mellanox technical support about this.  If they can identify a fix
in the driver then I'll be happy to apply that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

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