Bug 445095
| Summary: | BusLogic module can't compile in the rhel 5.2 beta kernel | ||||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Levente Farkas <lfarkas> | ||||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Prarit Bhargava <prarit> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> | ||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | ajb, amyagi, dzickus, hansg | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 20:25:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
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Description
Levente Farkas
2008-05-03 17:18:05 UTC
While we (RedHat) don't include this module in our distro, it should at least compile. P. imho it'd be useful in inlcude as a module (because of vmware) and the patch is
very simple:
--- ./drivers/scsi/BusLogic.h.lfarkas 2008-05-05 16:35:15.000000000 +0200
+++ ./drivers/scsi/BusLogic.h 2008-05-05 16:35:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -236,12 +236,12 @@
/*
Define a Boolean data type.
*/
-
+/*
typedef enum {
false,
true
} PACKED boolean;
-
+*/
/*
Define a 10^18 Statistics Byte Counter data type.
*/
Created attachment 304531 [details]
bugfix
it seems cun'n'paste is not working so i attached it.
ok it was not that simple. so actually remove the typedef boolean and
sed s/boolean/bool/g in BusLogic.{c,h} and FlashPoint.c is better (which is
what's in the current kernel.
Created attachment 304542 [details]
a working patch:-)
Backport of http://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head&m=117122477703016&w=2 P. Created attachment 304629 [details]
RHEL5 fix for this issue
the only remaining question does rh build the buslogic driver in the default kernel? without it the default kernel can't be used in vmware images:-( so it'd be useful. thanks Levente, RH does not build the buslogic driver in RHEL. If this is a production issue, please report it to your Red Hat Support contact. Thanks, P. please close this bug since it's been already solved This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. *** Bug 453281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to comment #8) > the only remaining question does rh build the buslogic driver in the default > kernel? without it the default kernel can't be used in vmware images:-( so >it'd be useful. If you use the LSI Logic SCSI adapter, there should not be a problem with vmware. In VMware workstation and VMware Server, I never needed to specify the adapter. Maybe because I select "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" as the guest OS? But some people say they have to actually choose the LSI to not use BusLogic. > If you use the LSI Logic SCSI adapter, there should not be a problem with
> vmware. In VMware workstation and VMware Server, I never needed to specify the
> adapter. Maybe because I select "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" as the guest OS?
> But some people say they have to actually choose the LSI to not use BusLogic.
I could NOT choose the LSI Logic adapter in VMWARE server 1.06 when adding a real physical drive. When adding image files I could choose LSI but adding a 1 tb external USB disk formatted as ext3 there is no option to choose LSI. So In my opinion it would be very usefull to add buslogic support. Specially when rebuiling your own kernel requires you to patch the buslogic driver first.
And I realy prefer to use standard kernels so I do not need to rebuild/compile every time there is a kernel update. And vmware is used used a lot these days.
Regards
Hans de Groot
Okay I finnaly did figure out how to change it to lsi logic. This is done in the guest .vmx file by adding a line scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" to it. I tried chancing the vmdk file of the drive, and that does not work. So I guess my earlier remark is not valid. in kernel-2.6.18-103.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 (In reply to comment #10) > please close this bug since it's been already solved It will be solved when there is a viable patch included in the SRPMS. At present, it is not solved, Levente. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html |