Recommended update for nvme-cli

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:1200-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for nvme-cli fixes the following issues:

nvme-cli changes:

  • add fields into identify controller data structure (bsc#1076004)
  • Add 'rae' argument to nvme_get_log() (bsc#1076004)
  • add support of RAE (bsc#1076004)
  • Implement nvme_get_log13 (bsc#1076004)
  • Remove unnecessary nsid field in error-log (bsc#1076004)
  • replace values of all namespaces with NVME_NSID_ALL (bsc#1076004)
  • resync nvme.h with the kernel's (bsc#1076004)
  • fixes an issue where nvme-cli showed errors when uninstalling it (bsc#1127076)

nvme-discover changes:

  • Re-check generation counter after log page transfer (bsc#1076004)
  • Retry discovery log if the generation counter changes (bsc#1076004)

Other changes:

  • nvme-ioctl: retrieve log pages in 4k chunks (bsc#1076004)
  • nvme/vendor: Add get log LSP/LSO fields from 1.3 spec (bsc#1076004)
  • nvme_fc auto-connect scripts (bsc#1044189)
  • Increase default format timeout (bsc#1076004)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1200=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1200=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1200=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • nvme-cli-debugsource-1.2-6.27.1
    • nvme-cli-debuginfo-1.2-6.27.1
    • nvme-cli-1.2-6.27.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • nvme-cli-debugsource-1.2-6.27.1
    • nvme-cli-debuginfo-1.2-6.27.1
    • nvme-cli-1.2-6.27.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • nvme-cli-debugsource-1.2-6.27.1
    • nvme-cli-debuginfo-1.2-6.27.1
    • nvme-cli-1.2-6.27.1

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