[Bug 1040833] Re: Pull in upstream biosdevname patches for 12.04

[Kent Baxley]

Hi James,

I'll double check with Dell.

0.4.1 should be stable enough to not uncover any land mines.  If it is,
I'll re-do the summary to include only the changes up to 0.4.1.  The
problem found in 0.5.0 centers around a naming conflict with some
Infiniband cards and that was discovered while they were testing the new
release.

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Title:
  Pull in upstream biosdevname patches for 12.04

Status in The Dell PowerEdge project:
  In Progress
Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Incomplete
Status in OEM Priority Project precise series:
  Incomplete
Status in “biosdevname” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  biosdevname in 12.04 is version 0.3.11. The latest version is 0.5 and
  contains numerous bug fixes mainly to enable biosdevname to work on
  certain Chelsio and Mellanox cards that have SR-IOV functionality.
  Here is a list of changes since 0.3.11:


  commit	f8848c5116c3f630cb9bc1b4eb1c64aac061e5cd
  author	Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>	
  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:23:40 +0000 (11:23 -0600)
      Bump version to 0.5.0

  commit	bdb6c2476bfe0ae18ca9411374b3522b770ade04
  author	Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>	
  Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:34:09 +0000 (17:34 -0600)
      Change scan of SMBIOS slot <-> PCI methods, recurse to set SMBIOS slot field

  commit	8c01e6a30921748c0e23783fdaf14880dc4c7f4b
  author	Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>	
  Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:52:06 +0000 (14:52 -0600)
      Save off secondary bus of PCI device for PCI tree traversal

  
  commit	4f23a5e92ede99face3c50af3b69239f92f15564
  committer: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>	
  Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:22:16 +0000 (15:22 -0600)
       Add version number to biosdevname

  
  commit 6749ea9684e7f20d40fd8f02082f65646e876eb3
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Thu Jul 5 14:38:11 2012 -0500

      Bump version to 0.4.1

  commit 0bb870f09a34b6c505fcefdbcf85cfcc1aa5ca97
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Tue Jun 19 16:41:47 2012 -0500

      Use per-slot counter to determine port number of cards.
      Fixes issue with Mellanox/Chelsio cards with multiple ports per pci device

  commit 0ea7d1ac1dabaa4e8c1bc5d48ac5e3da6ad67c81
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Wed May 2 15:06:24 2012 -0500

      Bump version to 0.4.0

  commit 1452ea7125b5e713b80459f7b528d5562438f3d5
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Wed May 2 15:01:48 2012 -0500

      Add fixes to biosdevname to support cards that export multiple network
      ports per PCI device (chelsio/mellanox).
      Fix for RHBZ 816536 and others

  commit 6b7d14fe19a9e08f751a689784f7dcc396ef053b
  Author: Narendra K <narendra_k at dell.com>
  Date:   Wed Apr 25 10:08:30 2012 -0500

      Make sure that vpd scan only runs on Dell systems, also blacklist Atheros
      wireless cards which hang when vpd is read.

  commit 71376f7698d742fb2fcfa01bd2e479f26dcd1a50
  Author: Praveen K Paladugu <praveen_paladugu at dell.com>
  Date:   Wed Apr 25 09:58:54 2012 -0500

      Fix autoconfig for Fedora systems

  commit 83b62a35e41e98e9c2610f44ab31d3a48dd26399
  Author: Narendra K <narendra_k at dell.com>
  Date:   Thu Apr 5 17:42:29 2012 +0530

      Fix naming for add-in network adapters when SMBIOS version is
  invalid

      This patch ensures that biosdevname does not suggest a new name
      for add-in network adapters when the SMBIOS version on the system
      is less than the value specified with --smbios option.

  commit f2ec6a9565bd8e0d2cb668b7a1ae9324c9e3b9f6
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Thu Mar 29 00:48:12 2012 -0500

      Add tracking of ifindex to eths structure

  commit cba74702122da269fad204475221d3280ddf2165
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Mon Mar 19 14:06:01 2012 -0500

      Use Physical device for slot numbering for embedded SR-IOV cards
      ok narendra

  commit bd53c4546131062e6a8e9c143420f19935a6a7cb
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Mon Mar 19 12:04:39 2012 -0500

      Remove unused variables
      from Stephen Hemminger [shemminger at vyatta.com]

  commit c98a625d8a7efbd060c366f4d3a19f4fc9d252ee
  Author: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave at dell.com>
  Date:   Wed Dec 21 10:14:02 2011 -0600

      Fix man page to use new naming convention

  I believe that this request should be within the SRU policy as these
  changes almost entirely are to allow biosdevname to work in new
  hardware: "For Long Term Support releases we regularly want to enable
  new hardware. Such changes are appropriate provided that we can ensure
  to not affect upgrades on existing hardware. For example, modaliases
  of newly introduced drivers must not overlap with previously shipped
  drivers."

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