qla2xxx/2300 and persistent binding

[Jussi Silvennoinen <jussi_nahant silvennoinen net>]

Hello,

how does one do persistent binding from qla2xxx/2300 on RHEL4 
(2.6.9-34.ELsmp.i686)?

scli doesn't work because /dev/qla2xxx is not there, neither does 
sansurfer. This is because of the drivermutilation I presume.

Both utilities work fine with the driver available from qlogic's site.

This sort of mutilation which prevents hardware configuration utilities 
from being used is most annoying and frankly ADOLESCENT behavior.

I suppose my only course of action is to open up a support request and 
spend three days serving their "further information" inquiries and end up 
having my hat handed to me with "no it doesn't work" answer.

I suppose I could rig up a shellscript which is run during bootup which 
checks is the driver the mutilated one or proper one from qlogic and 
compiles&replaces it if needed but I'd rather not go in to that with 
hardware which is supposed to be supported. I already have similar things 
done for the unsupported hardware in our datacenter (Areca, SSD).

-- 

  Jussi