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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Product functionality
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 11, 2016

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Bring lin_tape source into the Linux kernel

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The lin_tape drivers are causing us trouble either when the OS kernel is being updated, or if the drivers need an update.

Keeping a high patch level for security patches is very important on backup servers, since the backup servers generally have access to all the important and/or sensitive data in the organization. Therefore, it should be as easy as possible to cope with drivers for IBM tape units.

Why don't you simply make the lin_tape source part of the Linux kernel? Some divisions in IBM seem to have no problem upstreaming source code to open source projects. If the tape driver code were part of the main Linux kernel codebase, then IBMs customers wouldn't have to care at all about kernel/driver updates.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 15, 2017

    Note that this is not really a TSM problem, but if TSM development can convince lin_tape development to improve the situation that would be helpful.

    An alternative is to package the lin_tape driver with proper dkms support.

    This would eliminate all need of manually building/installing the kernel part of the lin_tape driver when the kernel is upgraded etc.

    The current situation of having to manually build the kernel parts is not satisfactory.

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