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Bug 461623 - qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
Summary: qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: F10Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-09 15:03 UTC by James Laska
Modified: 2013-09-02 06:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:22:34 UTC
Type: ---
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2008-09-09 15:03 UTC, James Laska 		no flags Details
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Description James Laska 2008-09-09 15:03:02 UTC 
Created attachment 316195 [details]
lspci -vvv

Description of problem:

Attempting to install rawhide on a IBM PowerPC system results in a failure when enabling networking.

This system has a qla3xxx adapter (not connected) which NetworkManager attempts to activate during install.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 * kernel-2.6.27-0.314.rc5.git9.fc10.ppc64
 * anaconda-11.4.1.32-1.ppc
 * NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.11.svn4022.1.fc10

Note, this also happens if you attempt to active this qla3xxx device on releases as far back as RHEL5.  The problem now seems that NetworkManager is activating the device even when told not to.  I'm filing this issue to track a potential driver issue with the qla3xxx driver.

How reproducible:
Boot installer on IBM PowerPC system with a qla3xxx driver.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. During install (loader), select a valid NIC to enable (non qla3xxx), for example, select eth1

            +----------------+ Networking Device +----------------+
            |                                                     |
            | You have multiple network devices on this system.   |
            | Which would you like to install through?            |
            |                                                     |
            |  eth0 - Ethernet device eth0 - 00:0d:60:b9:6b:c8    |
            |  eth1 - Ethernet device eth1 - 00:11:25:7e:28:64    |
            |  eth2 - Ethernet device eth2 - 00:11:25:7e:28:65    |
            |                                                     |
            |    +----+         +----------+         +------+     |
            |    | OK |         | Identify |         | Back |     |
            |    +----+         +----------+         +------+     |
            |                                                     |
            |                                                     |
            +-----------------------------------------------------+
2. Choose dhcp and select Next

                +-------------+ Configure TCP/IP +-------------+
                |                                              |
                | [*] Enable IPv4 support                      |
                |        (*) Dynamic IP configuration (DHCP)   |
                |        ( ) Manual configuration              |
                |                                              |
                | [*] Enable IPv6 support                      |
                |        (*) Automatic neighbor discovery      |
                |        ( ) Dynamic IP configuration (DHCPv6) |
                |        ( ) Manual configuration              |
                |                                              |
                |        +----+               +------+         |
                |        | OK |               | Back |         |
                |        +----+               +------+         |
                |                                              |
                |                                              |
                +----------------------------------------------+
  
Actual results:

The system appears to try to also activate eth2 (the qla3xxx) device.

                +-------------+ Configure TCP/IP +-------------+
                |                                              |
                | [*] Enable IPv4 support                      |
                |        (*) Dynamic IP configuration (DHCP)   |
                |        ( ) Manual configuration              |
                |                                              |
           +-------------------------------------------------------+
           |                                                       |
           | qla3xxx eth2: driver lock acquired.gure eth0...       |
eth2: Phy: PHY_VITESSE_VSC8211                                     |
qla3xxx eth2: is not link master.----------------------------------+
qla3xxx eth2: is not link master.
qla3xxx eth2: Releaseing driver lock.         | Back |         |
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready  +------+         |
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready                   |
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half Duplex, Flow Control: None
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready-------------------+
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.lements  | <Space> selects | <F12> next screen
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.
qla3xxx eth2: Link is down.
qla3xxx eth2: port_link_state = LS_DOWN.

This msg goes on forever


Expected results:

1. Initialize only the device I requested (will track in a different bugzilla)
2. No qla3xxx message constantly displayed to the console

Additional info:

See attached lspci info for this system
Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2008-10-20 22:48:38 UTC 
Reported to netdev.
Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2008-10-21 17:27:46 UTC 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122454292113609&w=2
Comment 3 Jesse Keating 2008-11-10 22:33:59 UTC 
Not a blocker, moving to Target.
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-11 14:53:16 UTC 
Did the patch for this ever get posted upstream?
Comment 5 Dave Jones 2008-11-11 15:34:38 UTC 
doesn't look like it.  I'll poke qlogic.
Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:00:17 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 7 Chuck Ebbert 2009-03-28 13:57:41 UTC 
Fixed upstream by commit 0f807044980dd51fdf9aa2df8d503d4757501b20 (2.6.28)
but not in 2.6.27-stable. Fix will be in the f10 2.6.29 kernel.
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