[sles-beta] cciss driver for HP hardware

[Tom Parker]

Thanks Matthias.

Why has the cciss driver been removed from the distro?  I assume that it
is still in the linux kernel.  Is there a reason to deliberately stop
compiling it?

I am sure that I am not the only person who has tons of older servers
that still work 100% but will be unable to run SLES 12 because of this
change.

Tom


On 21/06/14 09:59 AM, Tom Parker wrote:
> 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
>>
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