EMC requests this for U6, because it is for a new product that will ship before U7 comes out. The patch is a simple addition to the SCSI whitelist. There is virtually no risk. Without the patch customers who install the Invista hardware on a SAN must ensure that the all the RHEL 3 systems see LUNs that are numbered sequentially starting with zero. This is difficult in a large shared SAN environment. RHEL 3 does not offer a run-time workaround for this (as RHEL 4 does). Maybe this falls under the "addressing committed hardware support" criteria for post-beta checkins, since this will ship during U6? It is extremely low risk and will not invalidate any beta testing.
Created attachment 117699 [details] emc-invista-wtlist.patch
Very Low risk / high return.
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U6 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-35.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-2005-663.html