ANNOUNCE: scsiinfo-4.7.0.12 available, SFK and QUS issues status.

From: Vincent Cojot (coyote@step.polymtl.ca)
Date: Fri Oct 08 2004 - 08:05:53 EDT


Hi everyone,

In case you're using my modified scsiinfo, there's a new version
available to fix a few problems (most notably with qus and qlc support):

http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote/scsiinfo-4.7.0.12.tar.gz
http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote/scsiinfo-4.7.0.12.tar.gz.md5 (md5 file)

MD5 Replicated here:
0901c48c6a25e0fb17661ed53bd69e3a scsiinfo-4.7.0.12.tar.gz

There are still two serious outstanding issues (YMMV):

1) If you install patch 111095 (San Foundation Kit, verified with 4.3 -and
4.4, 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 which was released a few days ago),
/usr/include/sys/fibre-channel/impl/fctl.h will be changed so the
fc_port_t structure now references an fc_rnid_t structure. Problem is that
fc_rnid_t is nowhere to be defined (Just opened service req 37097738 on
this subject). I have included an ugly workaround at the top of qlc.c
(fake an fc_rnid_t) so that it compiles and works. That is mostly harmless
( I guess ) since the fields I'm using in fc_port_t are located prior to
the use of fc_rnid_t in the memory representation of fc_port_t.

2) Although SUN has aknowledged that the C headers are missing for the
'qus' driver, they are nowhere to be found at this time. I was told of
internal bug reports that made mention of 'missing qus C headers' but
qusvar.h, qusreg.h and qusmail.h still haven't shown up in either a
SUNWhea patch or a SUNWqus patch. As a result of this, I cannot yet remove
the fake qus header files from the distribution until I can point people
to a patch with the real headers.. The 'mkadapters' script was modified to
prevent qus support from building if the driver isn't present.

Thanks for reading....

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