[dm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] multipath-tools-0.4.1

[Duane Grigsby]

The problem is we have to support the distros which do not have support for fc_transport, so I would suggest you use but the mainline driver as well.

- Duane

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> [mailto:linux-scsi-owner at vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of 
> Christoph Hellwig
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 5:28 AM
> To: Caushik, Ramesh
> Cc: device-mapper development; linux-raid at vger.kernel.org;
> linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] multipath-tools-0.4.1
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:54:45PM -0800, Caushik, Ramesh wrote:
> > The newer Qlogic (qla2xxx) driver for kernel versions 2.6.9 
> and later do not support the fc_transport class. The support 
> is #ifdefed for kernels > 2.6.6 & < 2.6.9. So I will have to 
> wait till they support this for newer kernels. Meanwhile I 
> can work with a patched version of multipath tools. Thanks 
> for feedback. 
> 
> It's supported in the mainline driver.  The qlogic drivers do 
> lots of silly
> things and you shouldn't use them.
> 
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