Please include mlx4 and mlx5 InfiniBand modules

Bug #1719302 reported by Benjamin Drung
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
initramfs-tools (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Mellanox ConnectX architecture is: mlx4_core is the lower level PCI driver which register on the PCI id, and protocol specific drivers are depended on it: mlx4_en - for Ethernet and mlx4_ib for Infiniband. NIC could have multiple ports which can change their type dynamically. We use the request_module() call to load the relevant protocol driver when needed: on loading time or at port type change event.

The mlx4_core and mlx5_core modules are included in the initrd, but not mlx4_ib and mlx5_ib. Thus the request_module() call will not find these modules and fail load them. The mlx*_ib module loading will not be retried.

Therefore also include mlx4_ib and mlx5_ib in the initrd to make autoloading them work. A patch is attached to the related Debian bug report.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
tags: added: rls-aa-incoming
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Luke Williams (wililupy)
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Talat Batheesh (talat-b87) wrote :

Hi Luke,
Any update with this bug?

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.130ubuntu2

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initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Include mlx4 and mlx5 InfiniBand modules (Closes: #871595, LP: #1719302)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:51:45 +0100

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in initramfs-tools (Debian):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in initramfs-tools (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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