[sles-beta] cciss driver for HP hardware

[Tom Parker]

Has the old cciss driver been removed from the kernel?  On my SP3
systems I see from lspci that both the hspa and cciss drivers are
available for this PCIID

0b:08.0 RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array E200i
(SAS Controller)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array E200i
        Kernel driver in use: cciss
        Kernel modules: hpsa, cciss

I will have to test beta 9 on an old server on Monday

Thanks

Tom

On 21/06/14 06:22 AM, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
> Hello Tom and all,
>
> On 2014-06-20 T 23:44 -0400 Tom Parker wrote:
>  
>> I see that the cciss driver for older HP hardware is
>> no longer supported.  Does this mean it has been
>> removed from the kernel and is no longer available or
>> just that SLES will not support systems using this
>> driver?
> please see the Release Notes, chapter 4.2.2:
> https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/#Driver_Updates.Storage
>  
> Compared to other recent distributions, SLES 12 has
> special code in the hpsa driver to support more of the
> older controllers, i.e. more than the upstream driver.
>
>> We still have many HP BL460 G5 servers running in QA
>> and Development that have many more years of useful
>> life in them and all of them use the Hewlett-Packard
>> Company Smart Array E200i Controller which is listed
>> as not supported
> However, unfortunately, the E200i is not among those,
> where we can implement this.
>
> I am afraid, this is out of SUSE's control and should be
> brought up with the hardware vendor, who also maintains
> the upstream driver(s).
>
> so long -
> 	MgE
>