From: Marcus Meissner (meissner_at_suse.de)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 18:28:07 CET
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 18:28:07 +0100 From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Message-ID: <20071205172807.GA1246@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Updates to sles10
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:21:52PM +0100, Kim Johansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 17:52 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Kim Johansen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 17:41 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:41:05PM +0100, Kim Johansen wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > As I can see, there has not been any update for SLES10 lately. Does that
> > > > > mean we all need to update to SLES10 SP1 to get the latest security
> > > > > updates?
> > > >
> > > > Yes.
> > >
> > > There is a bug in the ibmvscsi driver, it came together with SLES10 SP1.
> > > It cause the system to be very unstable when updating to SP1. And it is
> > > not possible to install sles10 SP1 on a LPAR when using vscsi. When will
> > > this be fixed? It critical because we cant update to sles10 sp1 before
> > > this is fixed.
> >
> > I am not aware of this specific bug. Do you have any kind of reference?
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2b541f8f77fd339e4c5c5cbe8549b52445012704
Large parts of this patch are applied in the SLES 10 SP1 codebase at least.
The version of the ibmvscsi driver in the SP1 tree is 1.5.8 too.
Not sure if this has been fixed after your tests or not, but there were some
vscsi fixes.
Ciao, Marcus
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