Patches are being prepared for fixes from upstream and also testing of the in-box driver by QLogic and our partners.
*** Bug 511974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
IBM is signed up to test and provide feedback.
This enhancement request was evaluated by the full Red Hat Enterprise Linux team for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor release. As a result of this evaluation, Red Hat has tentatively approved inclusion of this feature in the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update minor release. While it is a goal to include this enhancement in the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the enhancement is not yet committed for inclusion in the next minor release pending the next phase of actual code integration and successful Red Hat and partner testing.
Marcus has stated to keep this open through 5.5 Beta for any bug fixes, but no new features are planned for this release.
QLogic - do you have any plans to update qla3xxx or can this be closed?
Based on discussions with QLogic, no plans to update qla3xxx in RHEL 5.5 were mentioned. QLogic: Please re-open this if this is incorrect.