Bug 463187
| Summary: | [LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201688:Installer migration - Merge CTCMPC into CTC device driver | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | borgan, ejratl, gmuelas, jjarvis, jstodola, maier, notting, snagar |
| Target Milestone: | beta | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | 6.0 | ||
| Hardware: | s390x | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-13.21.20.1-1 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-11-10 19:34:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 557522 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 356741, 554559 | ||
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Description
IBM Bug Proxy
2008-09-22 15:11:28 UTC
I think a more serious question is whether CTC should still be supported - as I recall, it was deprecated (if not officially unsupported) in RHEL 5. Am I mistaken? CTC (was upstream) functionality was deprecated, but CTCMPC (was not upstream) not. Both are now provided with "ctcm" (is upstream). Regarding the CTC functionality, this feature is only needed depending if Red Hat decides to continue to have CTC functionality in the RHEL 6 installation or not (in RHEL 5.x is deprecated but still offered). Regarding the CTCMPC functionality, we have not requested any installation enhancement. Well, it appears from bug 475721 that CTC may have been broken throughout all of RHEL 5 and not noticed until now. Which, again, makes me wonder if it should be supported. (In reply to comment #6) > Well, it appears from bug 475721 that CTC may have been broken throughout all > of RHEL 5 and not noticed until now. Which, again, makes me wonder if it should > be supported. > The bugzilla you are referring to has been reported in RHEL 5.3 against RHEL initscripts, not again the CTC kernel driver. So I would rather state: "CTC initscripts may have been broken..." If you find any problems in the CTC kernel driver: "ctc" module in RHEL5; "ctcm" module in RHEL6, it will be fixed bei IBM System z CTC mantainer. All I'm saying is that if a deprecated feature has been broken for the entirety of RHEL 5 (over a year and a half, not even counting the beta cycle, if that's the case) and it wasn't noticed until now, it implies it's not actually used enough to support in RHEL 6. We have no issue with including the ctcm driver (that is now upstream) in Anaconda. I think the only change that needed to happen in anaconda for the 'ctcm' driver was changing 'ctc' to 'ctcm' in loader. Steffen did that on July 22, 2009, which subsequently went in to anaconda-12.6-1. So I am fairly certain we have had this support since early in RHEL-6 development. Can someone retest with a current tree (anaconda-13.21.0-1 or later) and see that ctcm is used? While the new linuxrc.s390 does handle the new driver name, it also relies on automatic driver loading as requested by the anaconda community. Because of bug 557522, neither lcs nor ctcm are currently loaded which is why linuxrc cannot establish the necessary ccwgroup to form a network device of NETTYPE lcs or ctc. Tested with RHEL6.0-20091130.0. Therefore this bug depends on bug 557522. ------- Comment From mgrf.com 2010-02-11 11:54 EDT------- (In reply to comment #12) > - -- From maier.ibm.com 2010-02-10 13:51:30 EDT--- > Therefore this bug depends on bug 557522. That has a tested patch attached and is: RHBZ 557522 - need udev rules to automatically load s390 network device drivers for LCS and CTC Please include that patch to finally complete the integration of this feature. Thx Patches in BZ 557522 are in MODIFIED state and are included in kernel-2.6.32-16.el6. This bug is done from the anaconda side. It's been dependent on bug #557522, which is now in ON_QA. Setting Fixed In Version field and moving to MODIFIED. Hello IBM, were you able to test this feature with any recent snapshot of RHEL6.0? I would like to make sure you accept implementation of this feature. Thank you for your feedback. ------- Comment From mgrf.com 2010-07-23 05:23 EDT------- This feature is verified on R6 snapshots with one problem (severity = normal) reported The fix can be integrated independent from feature verification. -> LTC 64368 - RIT951753- [RHEL6.0 Snap4] ctc interface is not available on-boot with ctcm driver Set feature to verified, the fix Thank you for feedback, moving to VERIFIED based on comment 18. ------- Comment From mgrf.com 2010-07-27 09:47 EDT------- oopsa ... the bug reported for this feature got re-opened today, based on snap7. 64285 - RIT945673- RHEL6.0 installation using LCS and CTC network interfaces is not working. Verification failed for CTC devices install via LCS devices works Nevertheless I hold this feature in status "verified" and the fix for CTC devices get tracked via the bugzilla 64285 - RIT945673 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. |