Bug 1489587

Summary:	dmraid: Add deprecation warning
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jonathan Earl Brassow <jbrassow>
Component:	dmraid	Assignee:	Marian Csontos <mcsontos>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Zhang Yi <yizhan>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Apurva Bhide <abhide>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.3	CC:	abhide, agk, bmarzins, heinzm, lkuprova, lmiksik, mcsontos, msnitzer, prajnoha, yizhan, zkabelac
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:	_dmraid_ has been deprecated Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, the _dmraid_ packages have been deprecated. It will stay available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 releases but a future major release will no longer support legacy hybrid combined hardware and software RAID host bus adapter (HBA).	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2018-11-08 16:16:23 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Jonathan Earl Brassow 2017-09-07 20:05:16 UTC

There will be no dmraid package beyond RHEL7.  Therefore, we must:
1) Add a warning for those in 7.5+ that RHEL7 will be the last release supporting this package - likely best to be printed when started up.

2) Add sufficient documentation (release notes?) to inform users that future major releases will no longer support legacy hybrid (HW + SW) RAID HBAs - aka "fake RAID".

Comment 1 Marian Csontos 2017-09-08 07:00:23 UTC

+ Move package to epel.

Comment 2 Marek Suchánek 2017-10-10 17:48:08 UTC

Hello all,

I'm the maintainer of the Storage Administration Guide, which is a good place to warn users about the dmraid deprecation, in my opinion. It should be included in the release notes, too.

dmraid is mentioned a few times in StAG, mostly here:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/storage_administration_guide/index#raid-subsys

I can add a note there.

I'm setting myself as the Docs Contact. If you need anything documentation-related here, you can ask me.

Comment 5 Marian Csontos 2018-02-27 12:54:16 UTC

Doc text looks fine.