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linux-source-2.6.17 package

edgy kernel breaks qla2100 HBA support

Bug #67463 reported by Cristóbal M. Palmer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Edgy
Fix Released
High
Ben Collins

Bug Description

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.17

Dapper has support for this card:

 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2100 64-bit Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 03)

On Dapper box:

kjotte@calypso:~$ locate qla2100
/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-686/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2100.ko
kjotte@calypso:~$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-686/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2100.ko
linux-image-2.6.15-27-686: /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-686/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2100.ko

Edgy does not. Please restore this kernel module.

On Edgy box:

root@albert:~# locate qla2100
root@albert:~#
root@albert:~# uname -r
2.6.17-10-386

Was this removed for a special reason?

Revision history for this message
Tim Thomson (tim-thomson) wrote :

We're experiencing this too with Edgy RC1. It appears that all the qla2xxx modules have been removed so our QLA2300 series cards don't work either.

Having the modules on the live cd makes for a great diagnostic utility, as well as having our storage available straight after installation.

Tim Thomson (tim-thomson)
Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Eli Criffield (launchpad-zendo) wrote :

After upgradeing from dapper to edgy on a SAN booting server with a "QLogic Corp. QLA2312 Fibre Channel Adapter" It won't boot with any 2.6.17* kernel. There are no drivers, and there is no firmware.

1. The drivers qla2xxx drivers have to be added to the .config so they get into the kernel rpm
2. The firmware needs to be added to /lib/firmware/*.
3. a mkinitramfs hook needs to be added to put /lib/udev/firmware_helper and /lib/firmware/qla* into the initrd

Look at firmware-qlogic_0.3_all.deb for how debian does it, it doesn't quit work for ubuntu because we don't have the kernel modules and that deb expects /lib/udev/firmware.agent insted of /lib/udev/firmware_helper

Revision history for this message
Eli Criffield (launchpad-zendo) wrote :

This seems like an excessive amount of time for a bug that stops a server from booting and has an easy known fix.

It was reported 3 weeks ago and its still Undecided Importance and unassigned.

Eli Criffield

Revision history for this message
Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Fix is in my git tree will be pushed soon.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Eli Criffield (launchpad-zendo) wrote :

When can we expect to see a new package with this fix, It would be nice to get my servers up again?

Eli

Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
assignee: nobody → ben-collins
importance: Undecided → High
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote :

We've enabled the qla2xxx driver, and added the appropriate firmware. Complete fix depends on 74004 as well, which is being worked on.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

See bug 74004 for the initramfs issues which need to be fixed in order for this to take effect

Revision history for this message
Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

This report was marked 'Fix Committed' a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. bug 74004 has since been marked 'Fix Released'. I'm going to go ahead and mark the status as 'Fix Released'. If this is not the case, please retest against the latest Hardy Alpha release and report back your results. Thanks in advance.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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