SUSE-FU-2012:0456-1: Feature update for pciutils

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   SUSE Feature Update: Feature update for pciutils
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-FU-2012:0456-1
Rating:             low
References:         #743540 
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2
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   An update that has one feature fix can now be installed. It
   includes one version update.

Description:


   This update provides pciutils 3.1.7, which improves
   correctness and  completeness of information reporting for
   VF devices.

   * All extended capabilities have their version
   displayed (-vv or more).
   * When scanning extended capabilities, properly mask
   the lowest 2 bits, which are currently reserved. This
   avoids unaligned access errors on broken hardware (see
   tests/broken-ecaps).
   * Large bar sizes are displayed in human-readable
   format (with units).
   * The SR-IOV capability decoder now prints the VF BAR's.
   * The VPD parser now reports unknown and vendor-defined
   items properly. It also stops on any item in unknown
   format, avoiding long output on bogus VPD data
   * The Power Management capability now includes the soft
   reset bit.
   * Decoding of the Advanced Features capability has been
   added.
   * The procfs back-end is able to cope with
   /proc/bus/pci containing names with domains, which occur on
   sparc64 and possibly other architectures due to a kernel
   bug.
   * The MSI and MSI-X capabilities are printed in a
   prettier way.
   * When a BAR is reported by the OS, but not by the
   device (i.e., it is marked as [virtual] in lspci), the
   [disabled] flag is suppressed, because it does not make
   sense in such cases.
   * When a device has the VPD (Vital Product Data)
   capability and the VPD data are supplied by the OS, they
   are decoded and printed in the verbose mode. This currently
   works only on Linux with the sysfs back-end.
   * The setpci utility is now able to address registers
   stored in PCI capabilities (actually it allows a more
   general form of relative addressing).
   * The library has gained functions for working with PCI
   capabilities.
   * Fixed printing of the AER capability.


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Feature Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch sdksp2-pciutils-5883

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-pciutils-5883

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-pciutils-5883

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch sledsp2-pciutils-5883

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-devel-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-devel-32bit-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-32bit-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-32bit-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ia64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-x86-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-3.1.7-11.5.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (x86_64) [New Version: 3.1.7]:

      pciutils-32bit-3.1.7-11.5.1


References:

   https://bugzilla.novell.com/743540
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=a1da8b02b8de0c35b836b3dcb62d6445