Bug 1295468
| Summary: | Change in link behavior in lpfc driver on LPE31000 and LPE32000 HBAS with unqualified optics. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Laurie Barry <laurie.barry> |
| Component: | Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-en-US | Assignee: | Lenka Špačková <lkuprova> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | QE Internationalization Bugs <qe-i18n-bugs> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | Jana Heves <jsvarova> |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.9 | CC: | coughlan, laurie.barry, laurie.barry, revers, rhel-docs |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Documentation |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Release Note | |
| Doc Text: |
lpfc driver update
With the latest update, LPE31000, LPE32000 HBAs, and all HBA variants of this architecture now detect and enable both Broadcom-ECD certified SFP and QSFP optics.
For firmware rev 11.0.204.0 and later, unqualified optics are disabled, the network link shows `link down` state, and an error message is logged to the log file.
The lpfc driver in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 displays the following message and the network link does not come up:
3176 Misconfigured Physical Port - Port Name [wwpn] Unknown event status [status]
The users are recommended to use only Broadcom-ECD certified SFP and QSFP optics. If any of the 3176 messages are seen in the logs and the link does not come up, contact Broadcom-ECD technical support.
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| Last Closed: | 2016-05-10 12:18:33 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Laurie Barry
2016-01-04 15:37:49 UTC
The text above needs some editing and should be included in rhel6.8 beta release notes. Tom Coughlan, please review: Kernel Storage Drivers - Avago Emulex Fibrechannel driver - LPFC LPE31000. LPE32000 HBAs and all variant HBAs of this architecture will: Detect and enable both Avago or Emulex certified SFP and QSFP optics. For firmware rev 11.0.204.0 unqualified optics will be disabled, the link will be down and an error message will be written to the log file. The lpfc driver in RHEL6.8-beta will display this message and the link will not come up. "3176 Misconfigured Physical Port - Port Name [wwpn] Unknown event status [status]" Suggestions for improvement: Use only Avago or Emulex certified SFP and QSFP optics. Additional information: If any of the 3176 messages are seen the logs and the link does not come up you should contact Avago technical support. Send an email to ecd-tech.support: US Toll Free: 1-800-854-7112 International: 1-714-885-3402 EMEA: +49 8941352 0244 (UK business hours only 8:30 am – 5:00 pm UTC M-F) Laurie, Please open another bugzilla and have someone provide a patch to fix the message to be appropriate ASAP. Note that the fix should be derived from an upsteam posting. Thanks, Rob (In reply to Rob Evers from comment #4) > The text above needs some editing and should be included in rhel6.8 beta > release notes. Tom Coughlan, please review: > > Kernel Storage Drivers - Avago Emulex Fibrechannel driver - LPFC > > LPE31000. LPE32000 HBAs and all variant HBAs of this architecture will: > > Detect and enable both Avago or Emulex certified SFP and QSFP optics. > For firmware rev 11.0.204.0 unqualified optics will be disabled, the link ^--and later ? > will be down and an error message will be written to the log file. > > The lpfc driver in RHEL6.8-beta will display this message and the link will ^^^^--you may as well leave this off, since it will happen post-beat as well (even if the wording changes in the meantine. > not come up. > > "3176 Misconfigured Physical Port - Port Name [wwpn] Unknown event status > [status]" > > Suggestions for improvement: > Use only Avago or Emulex certified SFP and QSFP optics. > > Additional information: > If any of the 3176 messages are seen the logs and the link does not come up ^--in > you should contact Avago technical support. > > Send an email to ecd-tech.support: > > US Toll Free: 1-800-854-7112 > International: 1-714-885-3402 > EMEA: +49 8941352 0244 (UK business hours only 8:30 am – 5:00 pm UTC M-F) Requested same from development. I don't see this as a showstopper but we will clean it up. We'll have to see if we can make this happen quickly enough for RH's cutoff which is like next week, right? I approve the changes Tom Coughlan has suggested for the release note. The log output from the driver/firmware does not require any changes. Fixed one minor grammar nit: 'and all HBAs variants' should be 'and all HBA variants' Closing. the book has been published: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.8_Release_Notes/index.html#new_features_kernel |