Bug 683978 - need to backport common vpd infrastructure to rhel 5
Summary: need to backport common vpd infrastructure to rhel 5
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.7
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Neil Horman
QA Contact: Dayong Tian
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Blocks: 651438 660397
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Reported: 2011-03-10 20:31 UTC by Neil Horman
Modified: 2011-07-21 09:23 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-07-21 09:23:01 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1065 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 kernel security and bug fix update 2011-07-21 09:21:37 UTC

Description Neil Horman 2011-03-10 20:31:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Need to backport the common vpd commits from these upstream commits:
4067a8541d397e9d6b443dd2ce0ecb78bfd991db
e1d5bdabb94da89bdb3c3f2ee105cf61fca88ec8
b55ac1b22690d2e5b02a61cf6d69c2d66969c79d
7ad506fa1adc2da3d394c562f09b8e1b3026c402
a2ce766238f72ff7337606c0bc96803c30c9e05c


They are common to getting tg3 and bnx2 and usefull in reducing duplicated code in their vpd managment.

Comment 1 Neil Horman 2011-03-10 21:30:40 UTC
http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=3171432

Test build to validate backports

Comment 2 Jarod Wilson 2011-03-21 16:10:59 UTC
These bits are necessary for a number of 5.7 network driver updates, flag bz accordingly.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2011-03-21 16:29:09 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 6 Jarod Wilson 2011-03-25 18:52:24 UTC
Patch(es) available in kernel-2.6.18-251.el5
Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed.

Comment 11 Neil Horman 2011-06-28 13:37:56 UTC
yeah, then everything is fine, it just means that particular card does have vpd that can be read.  This change doesn't 'fix' anything explicitly, it just makes backporting upstream code easier as we move forward.  You should just mark this as SanityOnly or some such.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 09:23:01 UTC
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 therefore 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-2011-1065.html


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