Martin, yes, I can take care about removing the portname from the qeth driver.
Regards, Uschi > Martin Schwidefsky/Germany/IBM wrote on 17/06/2015 09:24:59: > > > From: Martin Schwidefsky/Germany/IBM > > To: "Mark Post" <mp...@suse.com>, Ursula Braun1/Germany/IBM@IBMDE, > > Cc: "Linux on 390 Port" <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > Date: 17/06/2015 09:25 > > Subject: Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM > > > > "Mark Post" <mp...@suse.com> wrote on 06/16/2015 04:53:29 PM: > > > > > From: "Mark Post" <mp...@suse.com> > > > To: "Linux on 390 Port" <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>, > > > Date: 06/16/2015 04:53 PM > > > Subject: Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM > > > > > > >>> On 6/16/2015 at 09:55 AM, Alan Altmark > <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 12:50 EDT, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> > wrote: > > > >> >>> On 6/15/2015 at 11:54 PM, Alan Altmark > <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> > > > > wrote: > > > >> > Neither z/VM nor Linux have to specify a portname (real or > virtual). I > > > >> > recommend that you do NOT specify the portname. > > > >> > > > > >> > I don't understand why the distros still worry about the > portname. We > > > > got > > > >> > rid of the requirement for z/VM and Linux on the z900 and > z800 back in > > > >> > 2003. Just issue a msg that it's obsolete and ignore it. > > > >> > > > >> Even for Linux in an LPAR sharing an OSA with a z/OS system > that is > > > > specifying > > > >> (their equivalent of) a portname? > > > > > > > > Yes, even then. You can google "OSA portname relief". > > > > > > OK then. I'm going to open up a bug with IBM to either remove > that > > > attribute from the driver, or make it read-only in sysfs. > > > Preferably removing it altogether since it can only cause > problems > > > by being present. > > > > > > Looking at the results of my Google searches, I can see why I > never > > > made the complete connection. There were always statements made > > > about z/OS requiring the parameter, and "if you specify it in > Linux > > > it has to match." Looking at it now, I understand what was > meant. > > > Back then it meant (to me and apparently others) "if you're > sharing > > > an OSA you need to specify the same portname as z/OS is using." > > > Well, technically there have been machines with OSA cards that > required > > the portname which is why the parameter has survived until now. > There > > is a bit in the response block of the read channel activation ccw > that > > tells us if the portname is required. > > > > With the option for 31-bit kernel builds gone from the upstream > source > > and the fact that the z900/z800 does not require the portname we > could > > remove the portname code from the OSA driver. > > > > Uschi, care to create a patch to remove everything portname related > from > > the OSA driver? > > > > blue skies, > > Martin > > > > Martin Schwidefsky > > Linux on System z Development > > IBM System & Technology Group, System Software Development > > > > IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH > > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz > > Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen > > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
