RHEL 5.6 readiness / qla2xxx

[Josh D Trutwin]

I'm curious if anyone else has upgrade from RHEL 5.5 to 5.6, specifically on SAN connected Blade servers?

I have a test server and ran the yum updates, on reboot I noticed some qla2xxx messages that I hadn't before and it took a while to boot, though it eventually came up and the SAN drives looked ok. The second reboot was faster.

The messages were 2 of these:

qla2xxx unable to read FCP priority data

Not finding a whole lot useful yet via google on that... I may have missed those before though as I haven't been at this position all that long.

Thanks for any input.

[Alzhy]

What kernel is RHEL 5.6?
We started out at 5.3 and patching brought us to 5.5 (2.6.18-194...)

Take a look at this:

http://solutions.qlogic.com/KanisaSupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=Post-265102001&sliceId=Post-265102001&command=show&forward=threadedKC&kcId=Post-265102001

It oculd be an issue with new drivers with the latest RHEL releases? The trhead posted seems to be the kernel for RHEL 6.0 though but who knows.

[Josh D Trutwin]

Kernel in 5.6 is 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5

I'm guessing that there are no issues based on my testing.

[Alzhy]

Patched my sandy to the latest kernel (RHEL 5.6) and I also got the messages.. everything seems working well too.