Bug 141004

Summary: Advansys SCSI module is missing
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steve Bergman <sbergman>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Steve Bergman 2004-11-27 22:20:23 UTC
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Description of problem:
The module is missing in action.  It exists in the kernel source code
but is not installed during the installation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe advansys
2. ls -l /lib/modules/....../kernel/drivers/scsi

    

Actual Results:  advansys module loads.

Expected Results:  FATAL: Module advansys not found.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-11-27 23:56:00 UTC
this is marked as broken in the upstream kernel, as no-one bothered to convert
it to use new dma-mapping code that came about in 2.5.  Your best bet is
probably to ask the folks upstream on the linux-scsi.org list
whether it's being worked on, or left to bitrot.

Comment 2 Steve Bergman 2004-11-28 08:53:12 UTC
2.5?  The module exists in Fedora Core 2 up through 2.6.6-1.435, though it does
seem to be missing from 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 and  2.6.8-1.521.  Or did this change
occur in 2.6.7?  Are drivers getting broken in the stable kernel series?

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-11-29 06:03:05 UTC
in 2.6.0 -> 2.6.7 it wasnt marked as broken, though it could corrupt data due to
a missing/broken conversion to the dma-mapping code.  It was then correctly
marked as broken later.

Comment 4 Steve Bergman 2004-11-29 17:44:44 UTC
OK. Thanks.  I was going to compile up a kernel with support, but if
it can corrupt data... this is used for our tape backups.  Time for a
new SCSI HA.  

Too bad about Advansys.  They were a good company and one of the
earlier players supporting Linux.  I believe they wrote the drivers in
house, made them open source, and supported them officially.

Comment 5 Dave Jones 2005-01-14 07:09:29 UTC
Aparently this is safe to enable on x86 even though its broken on other
architectures. I've fixed this in CVS, it'll go out in the next update.