Bug 1312460

Note the original RHEL7.2 doc BZ was 1258044.

thank you
Laurie

Hi Laurie, 
Thanks a lot for this catch. Do you want me to republish the RHEL 7.2 Release Notes with this fix as well?

Hi Laurie,
I have republished RHEL 7.2 Release Notes, so I fixed also this. I will carry over this fix to RHEL 7.3. I have also added an explanation of deprecated functionality.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.2_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.2_Release_Notes-Deprecated_Functionality-in-RHEL-7.html

Hi Laurie,

For be2iscsi, we're going to mark as deprecate the following PCI IDs:

BE_DEVICE_ID1, PCI ID 0x212
OC_DEVICE_ID1, PCI ID 0x702
OC_DEVICE_ID2, PCI ID 0x703

I don't know the real name of the devices behind these IDs, with the exception of 0x702 which is TIGERSHARK ISCSI.

How do you want to present the deprecation of these devices in our release notes?

Maurizio,

Please be careful here, you have typos.

BE_DEVICE_ID1, PCI ID 0x212
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                           I don't understand what this is.  Please refer to the original request in comment 1.

OC_DEVICE_ID1, PCI ID 0x702
OC_DEVICE_ID2, PCI ID 0x703
                          ^should be 0x704


Please reference the Model Names (tigershark is an internal code name)

The correct Model name that should be deprecated is OCe1100x OneConnect UCNA Adapters.
0700	OneConnect 10Gb NIC	
0702	OneConnect 10Gb iSCSI Initiator	
0704	OneConnect 10Gb FCoE Initiator

Laurie,

look at this patch: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg87182.html

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_mgmt.c b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_mgmt.c
index ca4016f..ac08adb 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_mgmt.c
@@ -1535,7 +1535,8 @@ beiscsi_adap_family_disp(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	case BE_DEVICE_ID1:
 	case OC_DEVICE_ID1:
 	case OC_DEVICE_ID2:
-		return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "BE2 Adapter Family\n");
+		return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "Obsolete/Unsupported "
+						"BE2 Adapter Family\n");
 		break;

you see that those 3 IDs "BE_DEVICE_ID1, OC_DEVICE_ID1 and OC_DEVICE_ID2" are going to be marked as deprecated.

In the drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.h file they are defined as:

/* DEVICE ID's for BE2 */
#define BE_DEVICE_ID1           0x212
#define OC_DEVICE_ID1           0x702
#define OC_DEVICE_ID2           0x703

Ok those must be some devices that are legacy Server Engines.

0702 is the only iSCSI device I'm aware of.

Ketan - would you please comment should all of these id's be referenced for deprecating the BE2 ASIC/Adapter support in RHEL?

thx
Laurie

Laurie,

All the three IDs correspond to BE2 adapter family. 

0x212 are older generic BE2 adapters (Emulex OneConnect 10Gb iSCSI Initiator (generic))

0x702 are OCx10101/OCx10102 BE2 adapter family (x = e or m)

0x703 are OCe10100 BE2 adapter family. 

Ketan

Thank you Ketan.  

Approved from Broadcom ECD.
Laurie

Hi Ketan, we are going to write this in the documentation:

The following controllers from the be2iscsi driver have been deprecated:

* Emulex OneConnect 10Gb iSCSI Initiator (generic), PCI ID 0x212
* OCe10101, OCm10101, OCe10102, OCm10102 BE2 adapter family, PCI ID 0x702
* OCe10100 BE2 adapter family, PCI ID 0x703

Is it correct?

(In reply to Maurizio Lombardi from comment #11)
> Hi Ketan, we are going to write this in the documentation:
> 
> The following controllers from the be2iscsi driver have been deprecated:
> 
> * Emulex OneConnect 10Gb iSCSI Initiator (generic), PCI ID 0x212
> * OCe10101, OCm10101, OCe10102, OCm10102 BE2 adapter family, PCI ID 0x702
> * OCe10100 BE2 adapter family, PCI ID 0x703
> 
> Is it correct?

Yes that is correct