Bug 73356

Summary:	What module to use for QLogic HBA?
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Nick (Gunnar) Bluth <bluth>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	coughlan
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Description Nick (Gunnar) Bluth 2002-09-03 12:52:46 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)

Description of problem:
The kernel offers 3 modules, only one works...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install AS on a machine with QLogic 2300 HBA(s)
2. Anaconda chooses qla2300.o as driver
3. The HBA(s) switch(es) to FL_Port although in a fabric environment
	

Actual Results:  The HBA(s) switch(es) to FL_Port although in a fabric environment when using the Anaconda configured qla2300.o module.

Expected Results:  The HBA switches to F_Port when in a fabric environment (works with qla2x00.o).

Additional info:

The kernel offers three differnet modules:
qla2300.o (addon): see above
qla2300_new.o (addon): same result (btw: trying to activate debugging in settings.h failed to compile...)
qla2x00.o (vanilla tree): works perfectly

Why does Red Hat still maintain two (!) addon drivers if the vanilla kernel has one that works?

Comment 1 Tom Coughlan 2005-03-09 21:24:44 UTC

(Just cleaning up an old bug.) 

The o.s. now defaults to the latest QLogic driver. Any non-default older drivers
that may be included in the kernel are there for customers who require the older
version, or experience a problem with the newer driver. Generally only one older
driver is maintained in the kernel.