Please include VMware vmw_pvscsi SCSI HBA driver in Lucid linux package

[Bhavesh Davda]

VMware's vmw_pvscsi SCSI HBA driver is now in the mainline kernel targeted for of 2.6.33. The kernel config option to compile it is:

CONFIG_VMWARE_PVSCSI=m

The commit that added vmw_pvscsi to mainline is:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=851b164231d1117673aa44c00c7622e48b7dfcf4

This bug is a feature request to backport the vmw_pvscsi patch to 2.6.32 for inclusion in the Lucid linux package. Thanks!

[Alok Kataria (akataria)]

Now that alpha-2 is out of the door, I think this might be the right time to check the status of including the pvscsi driver in the Lucid tree for it to be available with alpha-3

I just tried merging the mainline commit (851b164231d1117673aa44c00c7622e48b7dfcf4 - which introduced this driver) to Lucid's git tree and the merge looks successful.

Please let me know if you would need any more info before the actual commit to Lucid can be done.

Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.32-11.15

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linux (2.6.32-11.15) lucid; urgency=low

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  [ Tim Gardner ]

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  * [Config] updateconfigs after adding pvscsi
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  * [Config] CONFIG_BT=m

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[Alok Kataria (akataria)]

The installer kernel for Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 seems to be missing this driver. Can someone confirm if this can be included in the next update ?

Thanks.

[Alok Kataria (akataria)]

Reopening the bug to get the driver in the installer kernel.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Alok - kernel/drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.ko is still part of the Lucid generic/server kernel package (at least it is for the 64 bit version). What makes you think its not on the installer disk? And why wouldn't the module be getting installed? It does, after all, register as a PCI device so udev should be loading it assuming PCI_DEVICE_ID_VMWARE_PVSCSI is present in the VM.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

@Alok -- if you are saying that this module is not available in the alternate installer then it would be best to file a new bug for that, as the module as built and installed in the linux package as we can see below which was the aim of this bug:

    $ find /lib/modules/2.6.32-15-generic/ -name vmw_\*
    /lib/modules/2.6.32-15-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.ko

[Alok Kataria (akataria)]

Okay let me close this one, but yes I did mean that the installer kernel doesn't have the pvscsi module.
I have filed a new one bug, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/531017 with all the necessary information.

Thanks.