Bug 463378

Summary:	[LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201707:Include a new driver - lin_tape - for supporting the IBM Tape Library.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Ameet Paranjape <aparanja>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	ejratl, jjarvis, notting, peterm
Target Milestone:	alpha
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Hardware:	ppc64
OS:	All
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Last Closed:	2009-03-25 16:41:49 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	356741

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-23 03:40:32 UTC

=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-16 18:31 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201707]
a. Name of Feature:	Include a new driver - lin_tape - for supporting the IBM Tape Library.
b. Feature Description
lin_tape is a newly open sourced driver for supporting IBM's tape libraries. This driver is planned
to be submitted to kernel.org for inclusion in 3Q/08.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	PPC
Architectures:
ppc64

Arch Specificity: Purely Common Code
Affects Kernel Modules: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	Device Drivers and IO
Request Type:	Driver - New - Open Source
d. Upstream Acceptance:	In Progress
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	TBD

3. Business Case
IBM tape libraries used to be supported via proprietary binaries online. This is to convert the
support from proprietary to the open source distributor release model for better customer support.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Stephanie Glass, sglass.com, 512-838-9284

Technical contact(s):
Daisy Chang, daisyc.com
Malahal Naineni, naineni.com

IBM Manager:
Wendel Voigt, wvoigt.com

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-02 17:27:53 UTC

Putting in NEEDINFO pending upstream code acceptance.

Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-05 17:40:44 UTC

Red Hat please defer to RHEL 6.1.  Thanks

Comment 3 John Jarvis 2009-03-25 16:41:49 UTC

Closing as DEFERRED based on comment 2