Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 146698
Adding "RH" extention into qlogic driver qla2x00_version_str
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:06 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: There are various not-RedHat-supplied qlogic drivers the customers may use (shipped by EMC, shipped by HP, etc). It is normally very confusing when qlogic bugs are reported to GSS. To ease the pain, the earlier kernels add an "RH" text into the driver version string. This gives support group a clear indication where to look for the driver source, or at least raise an alarm for support to ask the right questions.Somehow the newer kernel removes this string extention. Could we put it back ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.(N/A) 2. 3. Additional info:
Hi, Wendy. The "RH" extension makes sense if our version of the driver (at a given QLogic version level) deviates in some way from the original. I don't know whether our current 7.01.01 version does, so I'll leave it to Tom to investigate and follow up.
Unless there are legal issues, I prefer seeing "RH" string gets appended even we take the code from qlogic without any changes. There are just too many variations of qlogic drivers. We in support don't have the luxury to immediately turn the customers away whenever we see a tainted kernel and "which qlogic driver" has been in too many confusing conversations.
The -RH string was added in U5 and U7. We will try to continue this in the future. In RHEL 4 GOLD and U1 we have the Qlogic driver from upstream. If we update it in the future I expect we will have to customize it a bit, so we will add -RH then.
A fix for this problem was committed to the RHEL3 U5 patch pool on 16-Feb-2005 (in kernel version 2.4.21-27.15.EL).
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 the 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-2005-294.html